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Joint Finance Committee to Launch 2025–27 Budget Votes Thursday, Cutting 612 Policy Items
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 6, 2025
The Joint Finance Committee announced today that it will begin executive sessions on the 2025–27 state budget this Thursday. The first action will be voting to remove 612 of Governor’s, originally submitted to the Legislature in February.
This has become a routine first step and mirrors past sessions: the committee’s opening votes have previously excised 545 items from the 2023–25 budget, over 380 from the 2021–23 plan, and roughly 130 from Evers’s inaugural 2019–21 request. Many of the provisions slated for elimination on Thursday have already been cut in prior budget cycles.
Thursday’s hearing notice also identifies ten agencies slated for review:
- Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
- Board on Aging and Long-Term Care
- Court of Appeals
- Employment Relations Commission
- Office of the Governor
- Investment Board
- Judicial Commission
- Kickapoo Reserve Management Board
- Labor and Industry Review Commission
- Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority
Further notices will follow as the committee advances through the budget, including its separate executive-session consideration of K-12 education funding across multiple agencies. We will continue to track developments and inform members as those reviews occur.
Thank you to all the school leaders who attended the four Joint Finance Committee public hearings last month. Your clear, powerful testimony resonated throughout the Capitol, with Special Education emerging as the top theme at every hearing. The impact was unmistakable—education dominated every hearing, with only one session where a single speaker narrowly edged us out of first place.
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