Statement on the Budget

 Dear friends,

Last week, Wisconsin’s Republican-led legislature reached a deal with Governor Evers on the 2025–27 state budget. And just before the holiday weekend, Congress passed the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill — a sweeping federal package that Republican lawmakers are touting as a win for working families.

Let’s be clear: it’s not.

Together, these two budgets — state and federal — represent a coordinated gutting of public investment in our communities.

What We’re Up Against:

In Wisconsin’s budget:

  • $0 in new state aid for public schools. At a time when schools are closing, kids need more support than ever, and educators are burning out.

  • Child care support is being phased out. A short-term bridge program replaces Child Care Counts, but it won’t be enough to prevent closures or rising costs.

  • Special education reimbursement increases — but still falls short. 45% is better than nothing, but well below what schools need.

  • No Medicaid expansion. No postpartum coverage. Vulnerable Wisconsinites will continue to fall through the cracks.

  • $1.3 billion in tax cuts — but most families will see around $180. The wealthy and well-connected walk away with thousands.

And at the federal level, the One Big Beautiful Bill has passed — slashing funding for Medicaid, housing, libraries, school meals, emergency response, and more.

This is the blueprint Republicans are offering: cut what keeps people afloat, then hand out tax breaks to the top.

What We Fought For — and Still Can:

Make no mistake — Democrats fought hard to block the worst of it.

Governor Evers and the democrats in the legislature stopped:

  • An $87 million cut to the UW System

  • Total elimination of child care support

  • A rock-bottom special ed offer of 35%

But survival is not the same as success. And our communities deserve better.

What We Do Next:

We build. We organize. We take care of each other.

And we invite you to join us.

🗓️ Join us Monday, July 14th for our monthly County Party Meeting at 7 p.m.

Bring a friend, meet your neighbors, and find out how we’re organizing locally to push back against these harmful policies and protect our communities.

📆 Check out our full calendar of events and upcoming actions here.

💙 Chip in here to support our organizing year-round.

We may not be able to fix every policy coming out of Madison or Washington — but we can fight like hell to protect what we love right here at home.

We hope to see you soon.

In solidarity,

Emily Tseffos

Chair, Outagamie County Democratic Party

Comments

  1. MahoganyJuly 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM

    I’m getting pretty darn tired of Democrats saying they did all they could. You sat and watched this go down without doing a thing, and I feel you are responsible for it going as far as it has. It appears you are as afraid of Trump as his slackies were in taking a stand. You sat there with your tails between your legs instead of causing ‘good trouble’. I can’t help but wonder If the courageous Democrats who have passed are rolling in their graves and ashamed of what the party has become. I see the need for a third-party to rise up and take our country back. Cowards.

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