A Sheboygan assemblyman is highlighting some items voted on in the 2025-27 state budget.
Representative Joe Sheehan says the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee unanimously approved an increase in bonding authority by $732 million to provide more revolving loans for safe drinking water and clean water infrastructure projects.
Sheehan calls the vote “a huge step in the right direction for helping improve our state’s water quality. I hope we can continue to see solutions to big issues like this solved in a bipartisan manner as the committee continues to deliberate on the state budget.”
However, the Sheboygan Democrat says there was a party-line vote on one item. Republicans, who hold a majority in the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate, voted to cut the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s (WEDC) base funding from approximately $2.2 million this year to $1.5 million in 2026.
Sheehan calls the WEDC a “critical tool in sustaining an economically strong Wisconsin.”
The 26th District representative also called Republicans’ decision to walk away from Governor Tony Evers on budget talks a crushing blow to months of bipartisan work.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu say they aren’t walking away but won’t accept the spending levels Evers wants.
