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As everybody today.
Thank you very much.
So, it's a brand new year, folks,
and I hope all of you had a great
holiday season.
You know, I know everyone here
has a lot of questions about what's
next for me and Kathy and
everybody else, but here's the good
news.
I've got plenty of time to figure it
out.
One thing is for sure is that
it's just like the first turn.
This one has fourteen
hundred and sixty days
So the issue here is I
look forward to answering your
questions about life after my
retirement When it gets closer
to later this year in
the meantime, there's lots
I'd like to talk about today and
accomplish over the next 11 months
of this legislative session
Today, I'll lay out my
agenda for 2026 work
to get done for the people
of Wisconsin this year So
let's get started.
We begin 2026
after a year of historic
and bipartisan wins for
the people of our state with readily
available resources to help us
continue moving Wisconsin
forward.
Wisconsin closed the last fiscal
year with nearly $4 billion
in our state's checking account
and $2 billion in
the rainy day fund.
I also understand from the
Department of Revenue that new
projections will soon be showing
state revenue could be
as much as one billion
dollars above previous
estimates.
So let's build upon last year's
important work and successes.
Well, every year is a year of the
kid for me.
Twenty twenty five was the official
year of a kid.
Very first thing we did in the year
of the kid was launch our new
Wisconsin Office for Violence
Project Protection to keep our
kids, families and communities safe.
This office is now accepting
applications for $10 million
that I directed, which will soon
be going out the door into the
hand of folks to help stop violence
in our communities.
Together, we also delivered on
a bipartisan pro-kid
budget that invested in our kids
at every age, $1.4
billion in spendable revenue
for our schools, and the
largest investment in our UW
system in 20 years.
In the budget, we continued our
work to cut taxes on
working families, fix the iron
roads, ensure access to
health care in rural communities,
ensure folks have clean and safe
drinking water straight from
the tap, support our farmers and
our state's most critical
industries, and lots more.
Folks, the Year of the Kid was all
about supporting Wisconsin kids
and the working families who raised
them.
And one of the biggest wins
for Wisconsin in 2025
was the work that we did
together with child care.
Any budget that didn't include
direct payments to child care
providers was a non-starter
for me.
It was a top priority for me to get
that done in negotiation with
Republican leaders.
So our pro-kid budget secured
$360 million to
support child care industry
and help lower costs for
families.
A third of that investment provided
direct payments to providers helping
care for nearly 170,000
kids.
We also created our state's first
ever state-funded childcare
program called Get Kids Ready,
which we're launching today to
provide direct payments to providers
to get four-year-olds ready
for school.
This was a critical part of our
childcare accomplishments in the
budget.
Providers can begin applying today
to get enrolled for the 26th,
27th school year
at no cost to families.
Our budget was a win for Wisconsin
kids, families, communities,
and our state's future, but there's
no denying the final budget
looked a bit different than the
product proposed.
Tomorrow, in a letter to
members of the legislature, I'll lay
out my 2026 agenda
and highlight key priorities I'd
like us to accomplish before
the end of the legislative session
later this year.
And there are areas where
we can find common ground for
bipartisan support.
A top priority for us in
2026 must be addressing
rising costs, whether it's
prescriptions for insulin,
other daily out-of-pocket costs,
or the skyrocketing price of
health care coverage.
Things are simply not affordable,
and paychecks aren't going as far as
they used to.
January in Wisconsin,
so let's start with property taxes.
Look, I get it, Republicans want to
blame my 400-year veto
on property taxes going up.
The problem with that is
Wisconsinites
were going to referenda before
increasing numbers of
years long before I
became governor.
The question would be why.
Because of a decade of Republicans
consistently failing to
meaningful invest in our
kids in K through 12 schools.
That has consequences, folks,
including forcing Wisconsinites
to raise their own property taxes
so their local school can
keep the doors open.
I fought hard to start reversing
this trend, and we've made historic
investments, believe me.
But it still has been billions
less than what schools needed and
what I requested.
And now schools are going to
referend it with even
more record numbers.
It's why I'm asking the legislature
to approve $1.3 billion
in property tax relief to
prevent property tax increases
for average Wisconsin homeowners
and help lower property taxes
for working families, veterans,
and seniors across our state.
Under this proposal, we can make
sure the average homeowner will
not see a property
tax increase period.
Republican leaders declined
to make property tax relief part of
our negotiations in the last budget,
insisting on focusing on
income tax cuts instead.
So I urge the legislature to
right this wrong from the recent
state budget and pass my plan
for over $1 billion
in property tax relief to
working families, seniors, veterans,
and many others across our state.
Also on it, the legislature to
address the fact that despite having
bipartisan agreement and commitment
to increase special education
reimbursement rates of 42%
available, state funding will not
cover that percentage for
our kids and our schools.
This has to be fixed before
the legislature goes home this
year.
I'm calling on the legislature to
invest the necessary funding to
ensure that our agreed upon
percentages for special education
funding of 42%
in this year and
45% in 26-27
are met, or better yet,
to make the appropriation sum
sufficient as I had
repeatedly proposed.
There's more we can do, and should
do, to give Wisconsinites a little
breathing room in their household
budgets by helping lower everyday
out-of-pocket costs.
The legislature should reconsider
adopting my proposal to
exempt basic family needs
like diapers, incontinence
products, over-the-counter
medication, toothpaste,
breast pumps, and so on
from sales
tax.
We also know that I
also know that because Republicans
in Congress have failed to extend
tax credits under the Affordable
Care Act, many Wisconsinites
this year will see the cost of
health care coverage go up
by thousands of dollars.
Wisconsin can't afford to pick up
the whole tab to fix this issue,
but we should still be doing
everything we can to help make
sure Wisconsinites can get the
health care they need.
Also asking the legislature
to approve a plan to lower costs
for prescriptions and medications
and crack down on price gouging
and health insurers
My last for REX
plan in the last budget,
and hopefully this budget,
will lower costs for life-saving
prescription drugs and insulin.
We cap the insulin co-pays at $35
and eliminate the
sales tax on over-the-counter
medications to save Wisconsinites
70 million dollars over the next
two years alone.
I know there's bipartisan
support for tackling prescription
drug prices
and price gouging.
I'll work with any legislator who
wants to get this
done.
The super majority of the
legislature and I also agree
that new moms should
get Medicaid coverage for
12 months instead of just
a lousy 60 days.
I'm hoping 2026
will be the year the speaker finally
decides to let that bill
make it to my desk.
I also hear from folks who feel like
they're not getting a fair shake
from their health care coverage.
Claims are denied all often
too often.
It's often hard to get a straight
explanation why.
People have to wait or drive
three hours and days
to get the care that they need.
Medical costs and bills,
especially when they aren't covered
by insurance,
are straining household budgets,
especially seniors.
I'm asking the legislature
to consider passing
common-sense ideas like
auditing insurance companies for
denying claims at
high rates, holding insurers
accountable so Wisconsinites
get health insurance, coverage
they pay for, cracking down
on prior authorizations
that require doctors to
get permission before they prescribe
the care that they know.
I also think we should create new
standards to expand the
health care services and procedures
that insurance companies are
required to cover.
2026, let's make
sure Wisconsinites' insurance will
cover more health care and services
and procedure with no delays,
no hassles, and no questions
asked.
You know, I'm also optimistic that
this year we'll be able to address
several critical priorities that
went unaddressed in the final 25-27
state budget that the legislature
ultimately sent to my
desk.
I'm asking the legislature to
approve the necessary funding to
reopen two homeless veteran
facilities in Green Bay and Chippewa
Falls, which was removed from
the biennial budget.
Additionally, we all know chaos
and recklessness in Washington are
hitting Wisconsin farmers and
producers hard.
That's why I'm asking Republicans to
provide $1 million each
year in additional one-time
funding for the Wisconsin Initiative
for Agricultural Exports.
We must do more at the state level
to help increase exports for
our dairy, meat, and crops
and help farmers and producers
expand into new markets.
I also want the Republicans to
approve funding.
I requested to help address
domestic and intimate partner
violence in the state and support
crime victims and survivors.
Last year, 99 domestic
violence victims were murdered
in Wisconsin.
That is outrageous.
I asked the legislature last year
to approve 66 million dollars
to help fill the Volcker
federal funding gap, but
it was removed from the by
Republican lawmakers during the
process.
I am urging the legislature to
make it a priority to get this done
in 2026 so we can
ensure victims and survivors receive
the support they need
and deserve.
My administration has also spent
the last several months in
conversation with Republican
lawmakers to reach a
compromise that will ensure the 125
million dollars we approved
more than two years ago now
to fight PFAS statewide
will actually
finally be released and get out
the door to folks across our state.
I'm optimistic that we
may soon have a proposal that
members of the legislature on
both sides of the aisle can support.
Let's get this done so that
we can make this another bipartisan
win for the people of Wisconsin.
And if we can, I'm confident
we can do the same thing to renew
the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship
Program before it expires at
the end of this fiscal year.
I'm also asking the legislature to
take up proposals, many of which
already are moving through the
legislative process, including
efforts to cut red tape
to help speed up affordable housing
projects, restore
resources to expedite
license and credential processing,
and eliminate restrictions to enable
retired and experienced workers
to rejoin our state's
workforce.
It's also critically important for
the legislature to provide
and approve the resources my
administration needs to keep food
share payments the errors lower
and save Wisconsin taxpayers
from hundreds of millions in
future costs among other key
priorities.
Failing to do so,
it will cost Wisconsin taxpayers
over $200 million every
year on top of the more than
$284 million
it will cost in future budgets.
The sooner the legislature
invests in food share quality
control efforts, the more
time DHS has to
keep down our food share error rate
and save Wisconsin taxpayers
millions of dollars.
Finally perhaps one of the
areas that was most disappointing in
the budget that was sent back to
my sent to my desk was the absence
Of a comprehensive plan
to close Green Bay correctional
institution today after
the after Today,
it's a full year.
I believe after I first introduced
my plan to reform our
state's correctional institutions My
plan remains the safest quickest
and cheapest option
It also remains the only
comprehensive plan in
existence.
Republican lawmakers still have not
offered an alternative plan of their
own, except closing
GVCI to be closed
by 2029,
which is what my plan proposed,
but without any plan actually
achieving that important goal.
In October, the State Building
Commission released the $18 million
I approved in
the budget to enable DOC
to continue its work towards
implementing a comprehensive
plan for corrections
reform.
So here's a simple reality.
If there's no additional action
taken yet this session,
then once that $15 million
in planning dollars is
exhausted, work on designing
and building DOC
facility projects will
stop.
The cost of these projects will only
go up, taxpayers will
only pay more, and it will
only further delay facility
building projects, and ultimately
the closing of GBCI.
We have to get this across the
finish line.
I encourage the legislature to
continue to work with my
administration to build consensus
on enumerating all the
necessary building projects,
making statutory changes and
policy reforms that fully realize
the facility realignment in
the DOC.
So folks, we have
proven that despite
these divisive times,
we still believe in working
together. To get the good
things done for the people that we
serve.
I'm hopeful that the legislature is
ready to get back to work, continue
working together, spend the
next 11 months of the legislation
session building upon the
bipartisan successes we had last
year.
We can continue doing the right
thing for the the people of our
state.
And I'm looking forward to getting
good things done for Wisconsin
this year.
Now with that, I'd be glad to answer
your question.
Governor, do you have any additional
details on the property
tax relief that you're talking
about? What would that look like and
how does that play into this topic
of referendums of schools?
Yeah, and there's probably various
ways of making it done.
And I'm not necessarily saying
it has to be done this way or that
way. All I know is that if we don't
do something, we will be
in the world of hurt and
the property taxes will continue to
grow.
So whether we use it in
a way that we have in the past or
somebody has a really good idea,
we have the resources available.
We have to make sure that they're
used in a proper way.
So I'm open for
some ways, some different ways of
doing things if that's possible.
Senator? Yes.
Go ahead. So AI continues
to be an issue that's in front of
the legislature and in front the
federal government, in front
businesses.
How can Wisconsin and your
administration start using AI
and are the agencies prepared for
it? Do they have the infrastructure,
do they have technology to use it?
Yeah, they already are using it to
some extent.
We have more folks
that are
pretty good.
Savvy in this world that
are doing probably more than I'm
personally doing.
But I agree that
it is it is a thing.
It's going to be very important.
What we're trying to do is make sure
that our higher education
institutions and particular in
particular UW of Madison
but other campuses too are
on top of things and making sure
that we are also on
top of
staff that I have presently
are using it, using it widely.
Not wildly, widely,
and we're in pretty good shape,
but it is important and we
can talk about it in terms of
the issues around making
sure that it's being used in
a good way to make sure that
we continue having.
Continue having a good economy
in the state of Wisconsin.
We need to stay on
top of it. We have to make sure that
we're not having a
blind eye to it.
And I think we're in good shape.
I'm really excited that the
University of Wisconsin system is
taking this on, as well as the
technical account.
Governor, so if I heard right, you
said we've got potentially 1 billion
more in revenue growth.
Looking at my notes real quick, we
were projected to have 655 million
for a structural balance.
So that's talking 1.7 billion
total. You have 1.3 billion
to go to property tax relief, but
you're not committed to how it would
be spent, or are you trying to buy
down the levies? What's the basic
approach?
Yeah, buying
down the levy.
Governor, would that $1.3 billion
be needed if you want to have the
400-year veto?
With this property tax proposal,
would you need this if you wanted to
have a 400- year veto?
That's I never
believed that that there before
that 400 year veto
We were going over referendum
all the time so
They can use that as an excuse
if they want to let's just get this
done. I don't believe
that it has
Talk about affordability issues.
Speaker Boss, floating the idea of
no tax on tips or
overtime pay.
Is that something you could buy
into?
Possibly, but let's look at that,
you know, in a more
universal way.
Yeah, I'm willing
to take a look at, but we're also
making sure that it's not just
that.
What are the latest discussions
with Republican leaders on
keeping the snap error rate down?
Yeah, I know we're involved
with conversations about it.
We just need to come to
some conclusions so that we can
keep that error rate down so
that, we're not going forward
going to be having significant
amount of money set
aside for that.
So, I think we're in a good position
as far as conversations.
We just needed to get a final
bill.
Yes.
Governor, we've seen conversations
of community-level protests about
data centers coming into
communities, seen proposals
from both sides to dial on this.
What do you think the state's role
ought to be in regulating that
activity here in Wisconsin?
Thank you very much.
Yeah, it's obviously a very
important topic.
I personally believe that
we need to make sure that we're
creating jobs for the future
in the state of Wisconsin.
That's all important, but we have
to balance that with my belief
that we have to
keep climate
change in check, and
that includes environmental issues.
I think that can happen.
We got two sites are
doing it at the same time But
I think if we keep open minds
we can keep the
environmental Environmental piece
in a good place.
That's really important for me, but
Easily Equally
important is the fact that we
have to have jobs for the future and
I know that's issue all
across the state of Wisconsin The
good news is is that people will
continue talking about it and I
think we'll get it in a place.
Yes
You're not on the ballot, but
obviously the big midterm election
later this year, what is your advice
to fellow Democrats about what they
have been talking about, what issues
should they be running on?
Yeah, it's hard for
me to...
To provide advice
for for for some of my
colleagues. They're doing what they
feel is important But it is it
is around affordability.
It is a problem having a
strong economy I think it's
absolutely critical that we fund
our schools appropriately and
And you know what I
think?
It will help no matter who's
running for election
whether it's Republicans or
Democrats, actually spending some
time, not getting out of
town as early as possible.
Let's do some things for the people
of Wisconsin.
I just think it's bad
politics to say, well,
we're done in February, we are done
in March, and we'll
see you at the polls.
That doesn't work.
I don't think that's a good message.
So we have the opportunity to
do some good things.
All the things I've talked about
today,
let's put them in the place.
Let's think about it.
Let's have some conversation around
it. Let's a bipartisan solution.
I can tell you the last budget,
was it my budget?
Hell no. It wasn't even close to my
budget. But it was a bipartisan
budget.
And we got things in there that we
felt are really important.
And I think the people of
Wisconsin appreciated that.
I also believe that maybe all
these things can't be done before
the end of February or
March.
Having people running for
office and actually doing
work, I think that can happen
simultaneously.
We need to get work done for
the people in Wisconsin.
Yes.
Do you plan on issuing any
prism commutations in your final
year of office?
We're looking at that.
Governor,
the lieutenant governor today is
proposing attempting to
ban federal immigration arrests in
public places like courthouses,
schools.
I'm curious first, is that even
possible from a state or
your level?
Is that something you're
considering? Thank you.
But it's not something,
obviously, what you saw
and are seeing across
our country is very
difficult to watch.
Obviously, the
president has different
ways of approaching this.
But I'm open to
do whatever, but the
bottom line is we have
to trust the people of
our states.
And I'll use Minnesota
as an example.
Should the people in
Minnesota or Minneapolis be
part of that investigation?
Hell yes.
It's their thing,
it's their person that was shot
to death.
And so I just think the
idea that the federal government
coming, I mean it's no different
than anything
else when the federal governor comes
in and
talks about things in terms
of you're going to do this or X.
You know
At the state level, I don't care
if you're Republican or Democrat,
you're going to fight against that
because you want to be part of that
conversation. There's none of that
going on.
I think that's a huge mistake
on the president's,
on the President, by the
President.
But at the end of the day,
I'm hopeful that we're
in a good place.
I am.
I said this publicly so
many times I could probably say in
my sleep You know our our
our state will be
destroyed economically
if suddenly we
decide anybody undocumented
is going home or
has to be Wisconsin has
to leave their Wisconsin home
and
you think about dairy
farmers, you think about
anything agriculture in
the state of Wisconsin, it is
absolutely, the work is,
the majority of the work is done by
people that are undocumented.
So think about what our
state will look like.
I mean, whatever good
things are happening right now in
the State will automatically
disappear.
They start coming into
Wisconsin and taking on
undocumented folks.
The folks that are doing work in our
agriculture industry are
our colleagues, our friends,
they go to our schools.
I've been in schools where 90%
of the kids have Spanish-speaking
backgrounds or more
and in
the downtown and some small towns
absolutely reflect
that.
That's Wisconsin.
That is not just something you come
in and decide, well,
these people have to go home because
why?
I'm very concerned about that.
And we keep an eye on it.
We're following it across the state
of Wisconsin.
But our agricultural industry
will come to an end
if what's
promised by the President happens.
Yes.
Governor, the Lieutenant Governor is
proposing to ban civil immigration
enforcement actions.
Like courthouses,
hospitals, schools, daycares.
Can the state ban
that?
You know, we can take a look at
that, but I think, you know,
banning things will.
Absolutely ramp up
the the
actions of our folks in Washington
DC. They don't they don't
tend to approach those things
appropriately and
so we're very
very vigilant.
I'm not sure that we have the
ability to do what the Lieutenant
Governor is doing or want to do
so. We'll see.
President, is ICE welcome in
Wisconsin?
I think we could handle it
ourselves, frankly.
I don't see a need for
a federal government that could be
coming into our state
and making decisions
that we can make at the state
level.
The State of the Tribes
usually takes place in February.
Are there any parts of your
2026 agenda that are
specific asks by the tribes or
specific for the tribes?
Yeah, we will
continue to discuss that
with them. There's been some changes
in leadership on
both sides.
And so we're looking forward to
that, if there's some things that we
can accomplish, yes.
Governor, going back to property
taxes, what would you tell property
owners who say essentially what's
happened is you allow school
districts to raise their property
taxes Now you're closing down the
state, come back and back for that
money Why not just allow those
reparations to continue and let
individual communities decide for
themselves whether they want high
property taxes?
Well, I think it's important to
recognize that the state has a huge
investment in our public
schools.
And if we
can minimize what happens
at the property tax level,
we should do everything we can to
take care of that.
Yes.
One thing I did not hear you say
go over was any mention of PFAS.
How disappointed are you?
You did mention that thought.
You did mentioned PFAS
I did talk about it, but I'm
hopeful that we're going to be in a
good place.
There's been discussions with
our staff, and
I believe we'll be talking about
it again this.
If I'm able to ask my question,
how realistic is it to expect that
anything that's on PFOS in the next
two months?
I think it's real strong because
we've had lots of conversations
with Republicans
and Democrats in the legislature,
and I think we're close to
solving that issue and
getting the money out the door.
Gov, you mentioned Minnesota.
What's going on there with the
allegations of fraud in the Trump
administration? Do you have any
concerns about Wisconsin's programs?
Have you looked in any fraud
allegations or just double checked
to make sure they were okay?
And secondly, why not handle the
snap rolls to double check?
Why not give them that information
to make sure there's no fraud going
on?
Yeah, the we are
in.
A good place, as you may remember,
2019, something like
that,
things exploded here on
that issue and we
made significant changes as
it relates to child
care and making
that in a better place.
And so we are, as compared
to what happened in Minnesota,
the money actually goes directly
to the
parents in this state,
goes directly in
the...
It comes into their card
can only be used for
child care.
And our error rates are
real low.
And so, and we have
changed our, and it
came back from 2019,
we had a very similar thing around
childcare at that point in
time. And we're in
a much better place and our
error rate are significantly lower.
Do you have more specifics on how
you would lower description drug
prices?
Yeah, it's a matter of
working with the
health insurers to make that
happen.
Have you had conversations with him,
and if so, what does that look like?
I'm sorry.
On postpartum
Medicaid coverage, the speakers are
sorting those out.
No, we haven't talked about that.
I mean, everybody but him wants
to take care of it.
So I'm hopeful that he'll say,
OK, I give up.
We'll see.
We've seen the Republicans start
cracking down on building committee
hearings over the last week in the
wake of the WSI shutdown.
Would you support that or give
WSI back a running or even ways to
just increase transparency here in
the Capitol in the Wake of Bill with
the Public Affairs Network?
Yeah, we're open to
options there and hopefully
we can get that result.
On that, Governor, would you support
just giving Wisconsin Eye
the money that's been allocated
without matching funds?
No, I think there has to
be some skin in the game.
Earlier this month, Milwaukee former
Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan
submitted you for a resignation
letter. When you filed that
trial, do you think Judge Dugin
did anything wrong?
Now she handles that incident in her
courtroom.
Well, apparently, the
folks that made
that decision felt
that she did something wrong.
It's hard to say.
I mean, I wasn't there.
I haven't made
that effort to,
because I went to court right away,
and I didn't want to obviously
play a role in
influencing what was going on.
But at least the
people on the jury
felt. That she did something wrong,
but I'm not in a position to
say whether I agree with that or
not.
But some of the narrative coming out
of that was that law enforcement
felt that courthouses were
a safe place to
enforce some ICE immigration
and finding people who are not here.
Do you have a concern that
courtyouses will become a
Yes, of course.
I have concerns
about the whole system,
frankly. So yes, I have concerns
about, you know, courthouses
becoming like a safe
place for ICE
to come in and
take people in.
What would that concern?
The concern would be it
would cause just,
I think, chaos in a place
that needs no more chaos and
already exists.
Governor, you mentioned Green Bay
Correctional Institute as an
unfinished area of business from the
budget. Has there been any movement
on corrections?
What can we expect to see?
Yeah.
Yeah, I can,
I'm hopeful that we can get
that resolved.
I know there's been discussions
right along.
We had a good conversation at
the building commission that
puts us in a position
to do some studying and
get some information that we need.
Going forward, but
so yes there have been discussions.
Hopefully we can get this result and
we have to and I don't know
what we will Do as a state if we
don't and I think everybody
Republicans and Democrats
Yes, ma'am
You mentioned the Veterans Housing
and Recovery Program.
You know, sort of the funding for
that has been stalled, but there is
a pair of bills that would
essentially create a new grant
program for non-profit-serving
homeless veterans.
If that passed the Assembly at
the end of last year, if that made
it to your desk, would you sign that
or split that?
I haven't seen it, but whatever we
can do to resolve it, that issue
should be resolved during the
budget.
So whether that, any
of these things I talked about
today, if something happens
individually, great.
If not, then we'll
fight over it.
But yes, we have to
get that done.
So if they come up with a plan
that I feel confident is gonna work,
and I understand that
that is happening,
I'd be glad to sign it.
What would your ideal
situation be to make sure that
those veteran sums are funded?
Yeah, what we had in our
last budget,
yes, sir.
Governor, this will be your last
year in office.
I don't know if you think about
legacy, but is there something
that you want to have
done this year that will
solidify your legacy or things that
you wanted to accomplish?
A great question.
Legacy has.
Like this much
importance to me, frankly.
We've worked hard for seven
years, and we're going to work hard.
If I have anything to talk
about today, we have
a year left.
And it's not all about me.
All the things that need to
be addressed,
many of them can be.
And so I feel very strongly
that what the
legacy is is just doing the right
thing for people in Wisconsin.
It's quite simple.
You know, my background is obviously
public schools.
I love to have magic wand and
make that happen.
But there are many other things
that are
critically important.
And so I don't want to say this
is my legacy because I'm not
into legacies.
But what I am in...
All for is making
sure we leave Wisconsin
in a better place than what we
had when it took office.
Simple as that.
Do you have thoughts about who in
the Democratic primary could best
build on the work that you've done?
Not getting involved with that.
Do you have an overall price tag for
what you're calling for today?
I mean, we have 1.3 billion for
schools, but what's the total price
tag?
Yeah, I'm
laying out a whole bunch
of things, obviously.
Let's just get as many of those
things done as possible.
And so whether it's a $3
billion or a
$1 billion,
let's work together like
we did last time and get
something done.
And that also means that
it may cause people to
We'll work more than the end of
February, end of March,
April, I mean those are all months
and I also know that you can work
in the legislature, work on
these things and run for office
at the same time.
It can happen.
So let's do it.
Thanks.
Can you do one more quick follow-up
to JR's question?
Just on the fraud, you
haven't ordered anything new for DHS
to look into child care based on
what we've seen in Minnesota.
Yeah, we're making sure
that we're doing everything we
can.
In the child care world,
we are in a good place.
And because of what happened back
in 2019, when the system
went to hell,
the legislature and the governor at
that time took the appropriate
steps. And, uh...
We haven't really
seen that and you can talk to the
people in the child care world
There's lots of people that come
to come for escape people that are
coming to their their
offices and their schools on a
regular Basis and so there's
lots Auditing going on
we're providing obviously more money
the money great share of
the money goes directly to parents
in the way of cards, so it can't be
used for any other purpose and
paying their bill with
the
provider. So I think we're in a good
place. I think we're a real good
place there.
Thank you, guys.
Thanks, everybody.
Enjoy!