Overview
- Evers launched a final-year push to use a roughly $4 billion surplus for $1.3 billion in property-tax relief, saying the plan would prevent increases for the average homeowner.
- Assembly GOP leaders publicly rebuffed the proposal and framed it as backfilling what they call the governor’s “400-year” veto that expanded school revenue limits in 2023.
- Evers argues referendums and years of stagnant state aid, not just his veto, are driving higher local levies and urges increased state K-12 support to ease property taxes.
- A Wisconsin Policy Forum analysis reports the largest K-12 property-tax jump since 1992, tying increases to the per-pupil change, voter-approved referendums, and flat state aid.
- Limited bipartisan talks continue on narrower items such as PFAS remediation funding and SNAP safeguards, with a compressed legislative calendar set to end by mid-March.