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President Joe Biden and Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, listen as Jack Mitchell, regional vice president of POET Bioprocessing, gives a tour at POET Bioprocessing in Menlo, Iowa, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Wisconsin Republicans ask voters to take away governor’s power to spend federal money

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. The Wisconsin Supreme Court says Republican legislators are improperly blocking conservation projects. The 6-1 ruling Friday, July 5, 2024, marks a victory for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and environmentalists. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Wisconsin Republicans are improperly blocking conservation work, court says

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks prior to President Joe Biden's appearance at an event about canceling student debt, Monday, April 8, 2024, at the Madison Area Technical College Truax campus in Madison, Wis. Attorneys with Wisconsin's largest business lobbying group asked the state Supreme Court on Monday, April 15, to strike down Evers' use of a partial veto to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400 years. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf, File)

Lawsuit asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to strike down governor’s 400-year veto

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Evers vetoed a bill Tuesday, April 2, 2024, passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Wisconsin governor vetoes ban on biological males in female sports

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers addresses a joint session of the state Legislature in the Assembly chambers during his State of the State speech at the state Capitol, Jan. 22, 2019, in Madison, Wis. Evers vetoed a $3 billion Republican tax cut proposal as promised on Friday, March 29, 2024, along with other GOP proposals that would have set a number of wolves that could be hunted every year and banned political loyalty pledges for higher education employees. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Gov. Evers vetoes $3 billion Republican tax cut, wolf hunting plan, DEI loyalty ban

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks at Cumberland Elementary School, Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Whitefish Bay, Wis. Evers on Thursday, March 21, 2024, has vetoed Republican proposals that would have allowed election observers to get closer to poll workers and required a new post-election audit. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Evers vetoes Republican election bills, signs sales tax exemption for precious metals

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Gov. Tony Evers, D-Wis., speaks before President Joe Biden at the Earth Rider Brewery, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Biden is returning to the swing state of Wisconsin to announce $5 billion in federal funding for upgrading the Blatnik Bridge and for dozens of similar infrastructure projects nationwide. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he’ll veto transgender athlete ban and be ‘damn proud to do it’

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Evers reiterated Tuesday, Feb. 27, that he will veto a Republican bill that would create grants to fight pollution from so-called forever chemicals and again asked GOP lawmakers to release to environmental regulators $125 million set aside to deal with contamination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Evers again asks Wisconsin Republicans to release $125M to combat forever chemicals pollution

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

FILE - Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati. Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signaled Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, that he has no intention of signing a Republican bill that would spend tens of millions of dollars to combat PFAS pollution because it dramatically scales back regulators' enforcement authority. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Evers signals he won’t sign bill to fight PFAS as legislative session nears end

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Republicans who control the state Legislature held a hearing on elections-related proposals in the state Capitol on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Legislature was racing to finish its work for the session by voting Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, on everything from a massive tax cut to raising out-of-state hunting fees. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin GOP-controlled Senate votes to reject Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees

By Todd Richmond and Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed new legislative district maps into law on Monday, Feb. 19 that he proposed and that the Republicans who control the Legislature passed to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court draw the lines. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor signs his new legislative maps into law after Republicans pass them

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - A man walks by the Wisconsin Capitol, Oct. 10, 2012, in Madison, Wis. Eagerly awaited redistricting reports that will recommend new maps that are expected to reshape the balance of power in the Wisconsin Legislature are due to the state Supreme Court on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Eagerly awaited redistricting reports that will reshape Wisconsin Legislature are due

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Gov. Tony Evers, D-Wis., speaks before President Joe Biden at the Earth Rider Brewery, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Biden is returning to the swing state of Wisconsin to announce $5 billion in federal funding for upgrading the Blatnik Bridge and for dozens of similar infrastructure projects nationwide. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Judge rules Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers can be questioned in Trump fake electors lawsuit

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Nate Gustafson holds a tape measure in front of fellow Republicans to demonstrate how far he was drawn out of his legislative district under a map proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers during a Capitol news conference Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Madison, Wis. Republicans proposed a bill making changes to the Evers map. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor promises to veto last-ditch Republican redistricting effort

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks with The Associated Press in his state Capitol office in Madison, Wis. office Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, about what President Joe Biden must do to win the battleground state in November. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor says Biden must visit battleground state often to win it

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Fans are pictured outside American Family Field before a baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs, April 12, 2021, in Milwaukee. Proposals for new and improved sports stadiums are proliferating across the U.S. — and could come with a hefty price tag for taxpayers. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File) **FILE**

Tax-funded building boom underway across U.S. as teams leverage leaving

By David A. Lieb - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks with reporters in the state Capitol, Oct. 17, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Gov. Evers used an alternative state email account under the name of Hall of Fame Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn, a move that his spokesperson said Monday, Nov. 27 was a security measure. Evers, a Democrat, used a taxpayer-funded email account with the name “warren.spahn@wisconsin.gov" to discuss public business with top-level Cabinet appointees and others, the conservative outlet Wisconsin Right Now first reported on Sunday. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Report says Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers used alternate email under name of Hall of Fame pitcher

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks during the annual State of the State address, Jan. 24, 2023, in Madison, Wis. On Monday, Nov. 20, Evers vetoed a $2 billion Republican tax cut bill, calling it “completely unserious.” (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin governor vetoes $2 billion tax cut, calls Republican plan ‘completely unserious’

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, left, and Senate President Roger Roth behind him, addresses a joint session of the Legislature in the Assembly chambers during the Governor's State of the State speech at the state Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Madison, Wis. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration and political opponent Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos are in the extremely rare position of taking the same side in a lawsuit seeking to immediately end Wisconsin's taxpayer-funded voucher school system, telling the Wisconsin Supreme Court that it should not take the case. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Democrat Evers, Republican Vos both argue against Supreme Court taking voucher lawsuit

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Poll workers sort out early and absentee ballots at the Kenosha Municipal Building on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Wisconsin elections officials would be able to process absentee ballots the day before an election under a bill scheduled for a vote Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 in the Republican-controlled state Assembly. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor says he would sign current GOP-backed ballot pre-processing bill

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press