• Gov. Evers released a statement celebrating the enactment of the bipartisan Supporting America’s Children and Families Act (H.R.9076), which was signed by President Joe Biden. Gov. Evers had previously led a coalition of 26 bipartisan governors from across the nation in 2024 in sending a letter to congressional leaders urging them to pass a bill to improve the ability of state, Tribal, and local child support agencies to serve families and their kids and prevent the suspension of child support payments to thousands of Wisconsin families.
• Gov. Evers, during his 2025 State of the State address, declared 2025 the Year of the Kid in Wisconsin, urging the Wisconsin State Legislature to do what is best for kids in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget by joining him in supporting historic increases for K-12 schools and the UW System, reducing crime and violence to keep kids safe, ensuring kids have clean, safe water to drink and healthy nutritious food to eat at school, among several other important priorities..
• Gov. Evers kicked off 2025 the Year of the Kid by approving a new emergency rule to combat lead poisoning statewide and directed another $5 million in federal funds to support the expanded Well Compensation and Well Abandonment Grant Program. Gov. Evers recognizes that in order for kids to bring their best and full selves to the classroom and prepare for their futures, kids and families must have access to clean, safe drinking water that is free of harmful contaminants like PFAS and lead. By lowering the lead poisoning threshold to 3.5 µg/dL, more kids and families will be eligible for lead poisoning and intervention resources. 
• In May, Gov. Evers announced the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) made this emergency rule permanent. 
• Gov. Evers released two independent audits of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). The first audit report released in February relates to MPS’s operations, processes, and procedures. The second report, released in June, relates to the instructional policies and methodologies at MPS. 
• In March, Gov. Evers wrapped up a statewide tour of nine UW campuses. Gov. Evers’ statewide tour of UW campuses came as he released his 2025-27 Capital Budget proposal, which included significant investments to help build, improve, and modernize state infrastructure, including at UW System campuses.  
• Gov. Evers released a statement celebrating the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision in LeMieux v. Evers, upholding the governor’s partial line-item veto in the 2023-25 budget that provided Wisconsin school districts with continued, additive per pupil revenue adjustments of $325 every year through 2425. 
• Gov. Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI), highlighted a new promotion from Edvest 529, Wisconsin’s direct-sold college savings plan, to help families save for their kids’ future education. In celebration of the 2025 NFL Draft being held in Wisconsin from April 21-27, 2025, accounts opened with an initial deposit of at least $25 received a $25 bonus deposit from Edvest 529. 
• Gov. Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD), celebrated “National Apprenticeship Day” and 2025 the Year of the Kid by announcing that for the fourth year in a row, Wisconsin’s Youth Apprenticeship program set a new record high of 11,344 youth apprentices enrolled during the 2024-25 school year, a 14 percent increase from the prior year. 
• Gov. Evers celebrated the grand opening of the new Flambeau River YMCA in Park Falls, which was funded in part by a $5.6 million grant through investments the governor directed to support the Neighborhood Investment Fund grant program. A branch of the YMCA of the Northwoods, the Flambeau YMCA will provide area residents access to a 40-capacity child care center, senior center, youth sports programming, and a 24/7 fitness center. The primary need for the facility came about after local residents struggled to access quality, affordable child care in the community after facilities closed their doors during the pandemic, creating a significant workforce barrier for area families. 
• Gov. Evers delivered on his promise to pass a pro-kid budget that makes meaningful investments in Wisconsin’s kids at every stage and every age, from early childhood to K-12 to higher education institutions, by reaching a bipartisan agreement after months of negotiations with Republican leaders and signed the 2025-27 Biennial Budget into law.  
• Gov. Evers secured a more than $360 million investment in child care in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget, including delivering on the governor’s promise to secure direct payments for child care providers—a bright line the governor previously signaled would force him to veto the budget if Republicans failed to pass a budget without it. This $360 million investment includes:  
  • $110 million in direct payments to child care providers to help providers keep their doors open and lights on, cut child care wait lists, and lower out-of-pocket child care costs for working families;  
  • $66 million to fund a new “Get Kids Ready” initiative, the first-ever child care program funded solely by general purpose revenue, or GPR, in Wisconsin state history, which will support child care providers serving four-year-olds to help prepare Wisconsin’s kids for the classroom and get an earlier jump start on learning at a critical time in development; 
  • $2 million designed to help child care providers across the state build capacity to be able to cut child care wait lists and ensure more kids and families have access to affordable child care; and  
  • Over $123 million to increase rates under the Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy Program to help lower out-of-pocket child care costs for working families across the state. 
• Gov. Evers fought hard to make sure the 2025-27 Biennial Budget provided increased investments for Wisconsin’s kids and public K-12 schools. After Republican lawmakers threatened to provide no new increases for schools, through negotiations, Gov. Evers secured:   
  • A nearly $1.4 billion increase in spendable revenue for K-12 schools across the state in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget, an over $200 million increase from the historic 2023-25 K-12 budget; 
  • The largest percent increase in the special education reimbursement rate in state history, which will increase to 42 percent in the first year of the biennium and 45 percent in the second year of the biennium; 
    • This is the highest reimbursement rate in 30 years and a larger increase for special education than the last three state budgets combined. 
  • $30 million to continue providing comprehensive school-based mental health services statewide, modeled on the governor’s successful “Get Kids Ahead” initiative. 
• Gov. Evers negotiated to secure the largest increase for the UW System in nearly 20 years with an over $250 million investment in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget, as well as another nearly $1.2 billion investment to support capital building projects on campuses across the state.  
• Gov. Evers wrapped up a statewide tour visiting child care providers across the state, and along with the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF), celebrated the launch of the $110 million Child Care Bridge Payment program, created in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget signed by Gov. Evers to avoid a gap in critical assistance to child care providers as the governor's successful Child Care Counts Payment Program came to an end. In 2025, Child Care Bridge Payment ensured employment of more than 32,000 child care professionals and allowed providers to continue care for more than 169,000 kids through over $35 million in direct payments to providers. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DFI, celebrated College Savings Month by encouraging Wisconsinites to start or boost their college savings through the Wisconsin 529 College Savings Program. Gov. Evers proclaimed September as “College Savings Month” in Wisconsin.  
• Gov. Evers wrapped up his annual statewide back-to-school tour, during which he visited K-12 schools in communities across the state to welcome students, families, educators, and staff back to school for the 2025-26 school year. As a former teacher, principal, superintendent, and state superintendent, this year marked Gov. Evers’ 49th back-to-school season. 
• Gov. Evers visited six UW System campuses across the state to celebrate and welcome educators, students, staff, and administrators back to school for the 2025-26 school year. During the visits, the governor highlighted his work to secure over $250 million for the UW System over the next two years, the largest increase for the UW System in nearly 20 years, as well as the over$1.2 billion in the 2025-27 Capital Budget for critical infrastructure projects on UW campuses statewide, including projects at UW-Madison, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Stout, Milwaukee, Platteville, and Stevens Point.  
• Gov. Evers, together with DCF, announced in October that Wisconsin Shares families would see an increase in their subsidy amount, thanks to the governor’s investment of over $123 million in the Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy Program in the bipartisan, pro-kid 2025-27 Biennial Budget. The increase impacted roughly 15,000 Wisconsin Shares families, with the average savings per family being around $174 per month. 
• Gov. Evers signed a bipartisan bill aimed at creating a statewide ban on cellphone use in the classroom, as growing evidence shows that schools with phone bans foster stronger social connections, improved classroom focus, and better health and safety of students. 
• Gov. Evers announced “The Learning Tree” as the theme for the 2025 State Capitol Holiday Tree and invited students to contribute handmade ornaments celebrating and thanking Wisconsin’s educators, child care providers, administrators, custodians, school bus drivers, counselors, librarians, school staff, tutors, mentors, after-school program teachers, and all the heroes in their lives who help them learn and support, educate, empower, and inspire them. The Wisconsin Capitol Holiday Tree was nationally ranked No. 7 by USA Today as part of the 10 BEST Readers’ Choice Awards for the “Best Public Holiday Lights Display.”
• Gov. Evers announced he approved a new administrative rule designed to help improve the state’s foster care system by ensuring kids can more easily be placed with family relatives or like-kin caregivers when they are unable to safely remain in their home. The move takes an evidence-driven approach to help improve stability and permanent placement, which are critical for kids’ success, by increasing the number of kids and youth who are placed with people who know and love them.  
• DCF, along with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and DHS, launched a collaborative process between agencies to revise the decades-old Wisconsin’s Early Learning Development Guidelines. This collaborative effort works to strengthen Wisconsin’s early childhood state system and provide crucial resources on early childhood development to professionals.
• DCF launched the Roadmap to Child Care Regulation, an interactive webpage designed to help prospective providers determine the best program option for their situation, navigate the regulation process with step-by-step guidance, understand necessary documents and verifications, and learn how to provide a healthy, nurturing, and safe environment for kids.   
• YoungStar, Wisconsin’s child care quality rating and improvement system, reached 3,953 participating providers—its highest since 2016. 
• Edvest 529 and Tomorrow’s Scholar both received a rating of “High Honors” from Saving For College, a leading source for unbiased information on 529 college savings plans. Plans with this recognition have outperformed their category average compared to peers in performance, ease of use, savings success, and program delivery. Additionally, Edvest 529 was named as a Best 529 Plan of 2025 by Morningstar analysts, retaining its standing as a bronze-rated plan.

Building Strong and Safe Communities for All 

• In January, Gov. Evers, joined by violence prevention advocates, local law enforcement, elected officials, students, and community members, signed Executive Order #245 to create a statewide Wisconsin Office of Violence Prevention and directed $10 million for the office to begin its work and administer grants supporting violence and gun violence prevention efforts statewide. After months of work to stand up the office, in December, Gov. Evers announced the opening of grant applications to support initiatives and programs at school districts, law enforcement agencies, domestic violence organizations, firearm retailers, and local governments, among others, to help prevent violence across Wisconsin. More information on the efforts of the office, as well as how to apply for the first round of grant awards, is available here.
• Gov. Evers, during his 2025 State of the State address, announced his 2025-27 Executive Budget would include his most robust and comprehensive gun safety reform efforts to date to address crime, prevent gun violence, and keep kids, families, and communities safe. Unfortunately, Republicans in the Wisconsin State Legislature gutted the governor’s proposals to keep Wisconsinites safe from the final budget. 
• Gov. Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (DMA), announced $2 million in grants to local communities and organizations through the Pre-Disaster Flood Resilience Grant Program.  
• The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) announced the issuance of the agency’s first forfeiture related to insurance fraud under Wis. Stat. § 601.41 (12), resulting in a total of $33,000 in forfeitures. Forfeitures like these go to the state’s Common School Fund, which provides books, computers, and other library materials to schools across Wisconsin. 
• The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) held its first-ever Friends and Family Forum, meeting with more than 40 friends and family members of persons in DOC facilities, at the Kolb Center on the Fox Lake Correctional Institution campus. The forums, which are designed to engage the community in rehabilitation and to improve communication, are now held quarterly. 
• This year, the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Protective Services (DSPS) sent payments totaling over $36 million to fire departments across the state as part of the Wisconsin 2% Fire Dues Program. The 2025 total represents a nearly 12 percent increase over the total distribution in 2024. 
• In efforts to continue to make Wisconsin roads safer, Wisconsin DMV’s Driver Education Grant program received continued funding through Gov. Evers’ 2025-27 Biennial Budget to continue to provide driver training for eligible students and teens. 
• As a significant influx of digital phishing scams hit the nation and state of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin DMV worked to educate consumers on how to avoid the scams, provide resources on how to protect themselves, and coordinated with partner states to ensure the region stayed aware of emerging scams.
• The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) launched new consumer protection outreach toolkits in partnership with DFI and the Governor’s Council on Financial Literacy and Capability. These toolkits contain downloadable materials that can be used by educators, businesses, community organizations, and other groups to teach students, staff, group members, and other audiences about common consumer protection issues and how to prevent and protect against scams and frauds. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DOC Secretary Jared Hoy, celebrated successful reforms at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools, which have reached a significant milestone and a crucial step toward closing the two juvenile corrections facilities and moving youth to new facilities to receive treatment closer to their home communities. After child abuse scandals at the schools under former Gov. Scott Walker’s administration resulted in tens of millions of dollars in legal fees due to youth abuse and maltreatment, the state of Wisconsin was placed under court order requiring dozens of reforms at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools and regular visits by a court-approved monitor to review and assess DOC’s progress toward complying with court-ordered requirements. Gov. Evers announced in October that the Evers Administration has successfully reached full compliance with all 50 of the court-ordered reforms at the schools—a critical first step toward the schools no longer being under regular court-required monitoring and supervision and, ultimately, for the facilities to be closed and converted to adult institutions.   
• Gov. Evers signed a bipartisan bill to ensure the state’s criminal code is updated to reflect the increasing use and potential misuse of artificial intelligence.
• Gov. Evers announced the Evers Administration would be moving forward with the governor’s comprehensive correctional facilities plan announced earlier this year to revamp corrections facilities across the state and work toward closing Green Bay Correctional Institution and Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools.  
  • Gov. Evers, who chairs the Wisconsin State Building Commission, announced that the State Building Commission approved approximately $743 million for construction projects, and among the millions of dollars released for planning and design for important projects statewide included $15 million that Gov. Evers requested to begin work across several Wisconsin DOC facilities toward implementing the governor’s comprehensive correctional facilities plan. In December, the Commission met again to approve approximately $185 million in construction projects across the state, including to support the construction of Wisconsin’s second Type 1 Juvenile Correctional Facility in Fitchburg.  
• Gov. Evers signed two bipartisan bills to bolster emergency medical services (EMS) in Wisconsin by reducing financial barriers for individuals seeking training, licensure, and a career in EMS and reducing the financial burden for local governments and EMS providers by increasing the Medicaid reimbursement rate for calls when a patient is not transported to a care facility. 
• In November 2025, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) celebrated the highest percentage of seat belt usage in Wisconsin on record since WisDOT began doing seat belt surveys 25 years ago. 
• Gov. Evers signed an emergency order to suspend DCF rules affecting emergency assistance for Wisconsinites facing housing insecurity or an energy crisis to ensure folks and families have the housing and utilities to be safe and well in the wake of the longest federal government shutdown in the nation's history. Gov. Evers’ emergency order helped reduce red tape and barriers to ensure Wisconsinites facing homelessness or an energy crisis could access emergency resources through DCF’s Emergency Assistance program and get connected with more resources and support. 
• Gov. Evers signed “Bradyn’s Law,” Assembly Bill 201, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 48, creating a new crime of sexual extortion in Wisconsin. Gov. Evers signed the bill in honor of late D.C. Everest Junior High School student Bradyn Bohn, whose tragic death by suicide inspired his family to advocate for passing “Bradyn’s Law” to help penalize sexual extortion perpetrators. Gov. Evers signed the “Bradyn’s Law” into Wisconsin state law in December at a ceremony in Weston, Wisconsin, surrounded by Bradyn’s family, friends, and loved ones, as well as community members, school district personnel, and elected officials.
• Gov. Evers announced increased 2026 municipal services payments for Wisconsin municipalities. Thanks to increases secured by Gov. Evers in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget, prorated state payments will increase from 37.6 percent in 2025 to a total of 44 percent of costs incurred by municipalities in 2026. This is the first increase for the Municipal Service Payment Program in over two decades. These payments reimburse a portion of expenses, including fire, safety, and waste services that municipalities incur for state buildings located around the state, including agency and UW System facilities. 
• The Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) awarded $3.9 million in State and Local Cybersecurity Grants to 82 municipalities in 2025 to enhance cybersecurity resilience and activities across the state, with a majority ($3.1 million) going to rural communities. 
• Over the course of the year, Gov. Evers granted more than 370 pardons, bringing his total number of pardons granted during his time as governor to over 1,800.

Supporting Working Families and Investing in Affordable Housing Statewide 

• Gov. Evers in March joined Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) CEO and Executive Director Elmer Moore Jr., local leaders, and project partners to celebrate the grand opening of The Derby Apartments. This new 70-unit, four-story, affordable housing development in Madison received $1 million in funding through the Vacancy-to-Vitality Loan Program, which was created as part of one of the largest investments in affordable housing in state history—$525 million—as enacted by Gov. Evers in the 2023-25 Biennial Budget.
• The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) administered 2023 Wisconsin Act 12, which contained significant changes, including the repeal of personal property tax. DOR distributed the first Act 12 personal property aid payments totaling $173.8 million in May 2025. 
• In June, Gov. Evers, together with WHEDA, announced over $2.5 million to support three new housing developments, providing more than 120 new workforce housing units in communities across the state. Later in December,  Gov. Evers and WHEDA announced another over $6.3 million to support five new housing developments that will create 521 workforce housing units in communities across the state. The funding is provided by the Vacancy-to-Vitality, Infrastructure Access, and Restore Main Street loan programs, which were created through bipartisan legislation signed by Gov. Evers and supported by $525 million—the largest state investment in workforce housing in state history—provided by the 2023-25 Biennial Budget signed into law by Gov. Evers. To date, this funding has supported the development of over 1,600 workforce housing units statewide.
• Gov. Evers celebrated the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Home Energy Rebate Programs in Wisconsin, which have helped residents statewide reduce energy use and lower utility bills.
• Gov. Evers celebrated his plan to lower energy bill costs for Wisconsin’s working families, a crucial piece of which went into effect on Oct. 1. Thanks to the bipartisan, pro-kid budget Gov. Evers enacted this summer, Wisconsin residents will no longer pay sales and use tax on electricity and natural gas consumed in their homes, helping to lower out-of-pocket costs on energy and utility bills across the state. The proposal, which Gov. Evers originally proposed in the executive budget he introduced in February, is projected to save Wisconsin households more than $178 million over the next two years. 
• Gov. Evers, together with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC), announced in October that Wisconsin residents can access Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Home Energy Rebates directly at retail locations, with instant discounts and post-purchase rebates. Through the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEAR) Program, customers can purchase qualifying electric appliances bought in-store or online, building upon the contractor-based rebates available since late 2024. This program helps reduce the purchase price to low- and moderate-income households for installing energy-efficient appliances, which lower costs for working families by helping households save on energy bills.
• Gov. Evers and WHEDA also announced that 59 organizations will receive $2 million in grants from the WHEDA Foundation to improve emergency shelters, transitional residences, and extremely low-income housing.
• Over the course of the year, more than 500 homes were repaired with $20 million allocated through WHEDA’s More Like Home™ Repair and Renew Loan program to help owners of older homes make critical repairs and improvements that increase energy efficiency, safety, and security. This program reinvests in our older housing stock to stabilize property values and make housing safer, more stable, and more secure for Wisconsinites in every corner of the state. 
• According to WHEDA, $36 million in state and federal housing tax credits was distributed to developers this year. In total, 27 developments will provide 1,731 new affordable housing units in 23 rural, small urban, and urban communities struggling to provide housing for working families. 
• In the 2025 fiscal year, the WHEDA single-family team closed 2,323 first mortgage loans totaling more than $481 million.  
• To date, the state of Wisconsin assisted thousands of Wisconsinites with housing, including providing tenant-based rental assistance and/or rapid re-house for over 2,000 households, overnight shelter for nearly 16,500 individuals, homelessness prevention and assistance services to nearly 4,000, and community development services and public facility benefits to over 57,860.  
• DHS launched a housing support service to Wisconsin Medicaid members experiencing housing insecurity who are also affected by substance use or mental health conditions. People who are struggling with substance use or mental health challenges who have a place to call home can significantly improve their overall health and quality of life. DHS created this benefit as directed under 2019 Wisconsin Act 76 and with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approval. 
• DOA Assisted over 186,300 households with their energy bills through the Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program, as well as helped more than 4,360 households save on average $325/yr on energy costs after weatherization improvements.   

Building a 21st-Century Workforce and Economy   

• To kick off the year, DWD released its 2024 Annual Report, documenting the “Year of the Worker” with seven straight months of record-high employment and major workforce milestones under Gov. Evers’ leadership. 
• In January, DWD launched an improved Wisconsin Skill Explorer tool to help job seekers match their current skills with in-demand occupations and explore career pathways. 
• At the beginning of the year, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) also announced that small businesses throughout Wisconsin would be able to receive free advice and training thanks to a new partnership between WEDC and the UW System Office for Business and Entrepreneurship.  
• In January, the Office of Outdoor Recreation released the first reports from the Do-It-Yourself Economic Impact Report program—a pilot to assist outdoor industry stakeholders in identifying the local value of outdoor recreation—which details millions of dollars in economic activity generated by visitation to outdoor destinations across Wisconsin.
• In March, DWD awarded targeted grants to 17 businesses and organizations in 13 counties to expand commercial driver training. 
• In March, WEDC announced nearly $1.3 million in Entrepreneurship Partner Grants were received by eight organizations that work to support Wisconsin entrepreneurs with technical and financial assistance, and in July, announced an additional $1.6 million for 14 organizations. 
• Gov. Evers, in coordination with WEDC, kicked off a trade and investment mission to Europe to promote exports and international investments in Wisconsin, highlight the state’s growing biohealth sector, and kick off the 50th anniversary of Wisconsin’s sister-state relationship with Hessen, Germany. The trade mission was built upon Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration’s efforts to bolster international trade efforts, promote state exports, and ensure Wisconsin’s vital industries, businesses, families, workforce, and economy continue to thrive.
• Following his trade mission to Europe, Gov. Evers announced that WEDC and Hessen Trade and Invest, which represents all Hessen-based economic development organizations at the state level, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase collaboration in global trade, business attraction, and market opportunities. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DWD, highlighted a series of virtual job fairs throughout the month of April available to federal workers affected by the Trump Administration’s reckless mass firings. The virtual job fairs focused on eight different high-demand sectors, from healthcare and informational technology to law enforcement and engineering, drawing nearly 300 participants. 
• This year, Gov. Evers and WEDC celebrated that the state’s Small Business Development Grant Program exceeded expectations, providing nearly $4.7 million to 29 local partners in 25 counties. 
• In April, Gov. Evers honored 11 individuals and eight organizations as recipients of the 2024 Governor’s Financial Literacy Awards in a ceremony at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The recipients were honored for their efforts in helping Wisconsinites build their financial literacy and capability skills. 
• In April, WEDC announced 27 Wisconsin communities would collectively be receiving more than $1.1 million in Vibrant Spaces Grants to help create attractive new public spaces. 
• Gov. Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Tourism celebrated the turnout of the 2025 NFL Draft, which amassed around 600,000 ticketed attendees over the three days in Green Bay. According to the Packers and Discover Green Bay, the event far exceeded projections. Attendance shattered expectations, driving total economic impact in Brown County to nearly $73 million—more than $50 million over the original $20 million projection. Statewide, the total economic impact reached over $100 million, surpassing the initial $94 million estimate by over $10 million. 
• Throughout the year, DWD announced nearly $4 million in funding through Wisconsin Fast Forward to employers in April and July for worker training to help employers address skill shortages and strengthen talent pipelines. 
• DSPS continued its Youth Firefighter Training grants in 2025, with all winners in this round coming from the Wisconsin Technical College System. 
• Gov. Evers and Wisconsin Department of Tourism Secretary Anne Sayers celebrated National Travel and Tourism Week by visiting art and history museums, state parks and trails, and communities across the state.  
• Gov. Evers, together with WEDC, celebrated “Fab Lab Day” and announced nearly $500,000 in grants to 20 Wisconsin school districts to train students in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics skills and prepare them for careers using advanced technologies through establishing or expanding local fabrication laboratory (fab lab) facilities.   
• Gov. Evers, together with DWD, announced $1 million in grants to three nonprofit groups through the Teacher Training and Recruitment Grant Program, which will support efforts to train and recruit teachers where shortages are most prevalent in Wisconsin. Additionally, in September, the Evers Administration similarly awarded almost $1 million to 19 school districts to train students in advanced manufacturing and construction. 
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT, announced over $4 million in Wisconsin Employment Transportation Assistance Program grants for organizations across 54 Wisconsin counties to expand access to employment-related transportation opportunities and promote Wisconsinites’ ability to enter and remain successful in the workforce.  
• Gov. Evers signed Senate Bill 24, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 6, to allow the creation of a new Tax Increment District (TID) in the city of Middleton and support critical economic development in the area and ensure a leading regional employer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, could remain competitive and continue to support 1,800 jobs in the community. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DWD, announced 10 regional workforce development organizations across the state would be receive nearly $10.3 million in grants through the second round of funding awarded through the Worker Advancement Initiative (WAI). In total, projects receiving funding through the second round of the WAI are projected to help more than 1,400 Wisconsinites find or improve their employment through paid work-based learning and classroom training. 
• In June, Gov. Evers, together with Tourism Secretary Sayers, announced Wisconsin’s tourism industry in 2024 saw its third consecutive record-breaking year of economic impact under the Evers Administration. According to 2024 economic impact data, the tourism industry generated a record-high $25.8 billion in total economic impact, or about $70 million per day, surpassing the previous record of $25 billion set in 2023, which itself was a record year. 
• Gov. Evers, together with WEDC, joined company officials from Yaskawa America Inc. in June to celebrate the company’s recent decision to invest $180 million to expand its current facility in Franklin and consolidate its Illinois and Wisconsin facilities into one campus, relocating its North American headquarters from Waukegan, Illinois, to Franklin, Wisconsin.  
• Gov. Evers, together with Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich, announced that the Evers Administration awarded nearly $2 million to the city of Green Bay for work done to support the 2025 NFL Draft. The grant, funded through the Opportunity Attraction and Promotion Fund program, helped the city of Green Bay, the village of Ashwaubenon, and Brown County cover security and other public safety costs associated with hosting the 2025 NFL Draft in April. 
• Gov. Evers and the Wisconsin Office of Outdoor Recreation announced seven individuals and organizations as the first recipients of the newly created Wisconsin Governor’s Outdoor Industry Awards for their outstanding contributions to Wisconsin’s outdoor recreation industry. The Governor’s Outdoor Industry Awards honor the outstanding accomplishments that drive economic impact and elevate the profile of Wisconsin’s thriving outdoor industry and of the state as a top outdoor recreation destination. Wisconsin’s Outdoor Recreation industry is a more than $11 billion industry in the state, supporting nearly 100,000 jobs.  
• Gov. Evers, together with WEDC, joined Catalent leaders and officials in July to celebrate the company’s recent announcement of an estimated $45 million investment to expand their facilities and purchase new equipment for its production facility in Madison, which has created approximately 200 new highly skilled jobs. 
• Gov. Evers took action on Assembly Bill 140, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 16, a bipartisan bill that creates exceptions for TID Number 5 in the city of Port Washington and TID Number 10 in the city of Beaver Dam to support attracting new data centers to these communities and to continue growing this multi-billion-dollar industry in the state. In November, Gov. Evers, company leaders, and state and local partners announced that Meta would be investing more than $1 billion in an artificial-intelligence-optimized data center campus located in Beaver Dam. 
• In July, Gov. Evers signed into law as part of the 2025-27 Biennial Budget the creation of the Wisconsin Film Office at the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, which will allocate up to $5 million per year in film production and investment tax incentives beginning in 2026. 
• In July 2025, Gov. Evers signed Assembly Bill 232, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 33, to return workers’ compensation adjudicatory functions from the Division of Hearings and Appeals back to DWD, effective Jan. 1, 2026 
• Gov. Evers, together with WEDC, announced that the state will support Eli Lilly and Company’s $4 billion investment in Wisconsin with up to $100 million in performance-based state tax credits.  
• Gov. Evers signed Assembly Bill 257, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 17, a bipartisan bill relating to the independent practice of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). The bill creates a new licensure opportunity for registered nurses (RNs) to become APRNs, ultimately increasing career opportunities for RNs and APRNs and expanding healthcare service access for Wisconsinites. 
• Following his petition to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in July, Gov. Evers successfully secured designations for four counties and four census tracts as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), providing critical opportunities for local businesses to grow and compete in the federal marketplace.   
• Gov. Evers, together with WEDC, announced that Milwaukee Tool is further expanding its footprint in Wisconsin with a $42 million investment in its newest facility in Menomonee Falls, supported by up to $4.5 million in performance-based Enterprise Zone tax credits from WEDC. Over the next several years, the expansion is expected to create approximately 300 new high-skill jobs, adding to Milwaukee Tool’s already significant presence in the state.  
• Gov. Evers, together with WEDC, announced that the Evers Administration made record investments in Wisconsin businesses and communities during fiscal year (FY) 2025, which ended June 30, 2025. In FY25, WEDC contracted for a total of 320 tax incentives, grants, and loans, totaling $91.5 million—the highest volume in the past five years—to help attract new businesses and enable existing businesses to grow.
• Gov. Evers, together with the Green Bay Packers and in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, announced that Lambeau Field was joining ten other “Wonders of Wisconsin” sites across the state, adding to a growing lineup of must-visit places in Wisconsin for residents and visitors alike.
• Gov. Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD), launched applications for DWD’s Commercial Driver Training Grant program. This program works to bolster Wisconsin’s driving workforce through providing trainees with a sustainable wage, helping Wisconsinites obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), and meeting demands for one of the state’s most in-demand occupations.
• Gov. Evers joined Microsoft officials and local leaders to announce that Microsoft is investing an additional $4 billion to further expand its planned datacenter campus in Mount Pleasant, raising Microsoft’s total investment in Wisconsin to more than $7 billion.   
• Wisconsin set a new total nonfarm jobs record in August with 3,068,700 jobs, continuing the state’s record-breaking run of employment gains.  
• Gov. Evers joined local leaders and company officials from Impact Confections to celebrate the company’s $12.4 million expansion at their Janesville manufacturing facility. According to the company, the project is set to modernize equipment and create a more efficient workspace for its 240 employees. 
• Gov. Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, Discover Green Bay, and Cruise the Great Lakes, a regional cruise marketing program led by the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, celebrated the announcement of the 2026 visitor and economic impact projections for Great Lakes cruises. The 2026 cruising season is projected to see over 170,000 total cruise passenger visits—up 10 percent from 2025—as well as roughly 800 port visits, and a regional economic impact of approximately $290 million, representing an estimated 20 percent increase compared to 2025. 
• Worker’s compensation insurance rates decreased for the 10th consecutive year, with an average 3.2 percent rate reduction beginning Oct. 1, 2025, saving employers money while reflecting strong safety performance.
• DWD announced $2.25 million in grant funding for Wisconsin’s healthcare sector employers to help train workers and fill critical workforce needs.  
• Throughout 2025, DWD’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation saw its highest demand for services since 2016, with 33,687 requests and helped 3,429 individuals achieve successful employment outcomes across diverse industries. DVR Business Services Consultants also connected with 3,275 businesses through Job Center of Wisconsin, delivering more than 8,800 services to employers.   
• Project SEARCH surpassed 2,000 total Wisconsin participants since its launch in 2008, continuing to prepare young adults with disabilities for competitive employment. 
• WEDC announced the launch of the Talent Recruitment Grant Program, a new initiative designed to support local efforts to attract new residents to Wisconsin with grants up to $500,000 per project. Backed by a $5 million allocation under the state’s 2025-27 Biennial Budget signed by Gov. Evers, the program will begin accepting applications on Jan. 5, 2026. 
• The WEDC Board of Directors approved a contract amendment providing up to $16 million in additional performance-based tax incentives to Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic manufacturing service provider, in support of the company’s investment of an additional $569 million to expand its operations in Racine County, which will create 1,374 new jobs over the next four years. 
• Gov. Evers kicked off the holiday season by celebrating “Shop Small Wisconsin Season” and encouraging Wisconsinites to shop at Wisconsin’s many local small businesses during the holidays. For the fifth consecutive year, Gov. Evers has proclaimed the weeks between Small Business Saturday through the end of the year as “Shop Small Wisconsin Season.”
• In FY 2025, the Wisconsin Department of Tourism awarded over $1.5 million for a total of 95 grants through four different grant programs to destination marketing organizations, nonprofits, and Tribal governments. 
• The Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s Co-op program—which offers strategic and cost-effective marketing and public relations opportunities to promote Wisconsin destinations—saw over $190,000 investments from 114 different partners.   
• The Wisconsin Department of Tourism celebrated the release of “A Cherry Pie Christmas,” a Christmas movie that was filmed in Wisconsin and features several local businesses in the Door County area. The production was supported by Travel Wisconsin and WEDC to help promote Wisconsin's thriving tourism industry.

Supporting Healthier Wisconsinites 

• At the beginning of 2025, DATCP celebrated distributing over $1.5 million through the Tribal Elder Community Food Box Program in 2024 for nonprofit food assistance organizations to help purchase and distribute healthy, high-quality, and culturally traditional food to thousands of Tribal elders and their families, supporting Indigenous-based food producers in the process. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DATCP, announced that $1 million would be awarded to 49 farmer-led groups through the Producer-Led Watershed Protection Grant Program. Funding will support producer-led conservation solutions by encouraging innovation and farmer participation in efforts to improve Wisconsin’s soil health and water quality. 
• DATCP announced that nine projects would be receiving grant funding for the 2025 Commercial Nitrogen Optimization Pilot Program. These grants aim to refine and enhance the understanding of new methods that optimize commercial nitrogen applied to agricultural fields, helping to protect vital soil and water resources. 
• DATCP announced 11 Wisconsin companies received a total of nearly a quarter of a million dollars in 2024 Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grants to help grow the local food economy. 
• DATCP began National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) testing in May 2025 with help from industry partners, and Wisconsin achieved unaffected Gold Status under the NMTS in September. 
• In May, DATCP and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) organized a U.S. Ginseng Summit in Wausau, bringing together state and federal ginseng officials with growers and industry representatives from across the country for the first time in nearly a decade. 
• In May, DATCP launched the application for 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grants, and in December, DATCP opened applications for 2026 Specialty Crop Block Grants. Projects can receive grant funds between $10,000 and $100,000, and eligible project expenses include compensation for personnel, consultant services, materials, and supplies. 
• Gov. Evers announced the third round of Export Expansion Grants that will support seven projects focused on expanding dairy, meat, and crop exports. The grants are funded through the Wisconsin Initiative for Agricultural Exports (WIAE), created by Gov. Evers in 2021, to help boost the export of dairy, meat, crop, and other products by 25 percent. Under Gov. Evers’ leadership, according to the WIAE, Wisconsin is currently ranked 12th in the nation for agricultural exports by state, up from 13th in 2021. Under Gov. Evers’ leadership, Wisconsin is well on its way to becoming a top 10 state in the country for agricultural exports. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DATCP, announced nine Wisconsin meat processors would be receiving 2025 Meat Processor Infrastructure grants. These grants help local meat processors with projects to modernize and grow their businesses, produce new products, or expand their markets, while improving profitability and sustaining the long-term viability of Wisconsin’s meat processing facilities.
• DATCP responded to highly pathogenic avian influenza in the state’s largest egg layer at the end of September. The response involved depopulation of more than 3 million birds, with transportation and disposal of the carcasses off-site. DATCP managed the event with minimal U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on-site involvement, and DATCP also provided oversight of the company’s depopulation and disposal activities through the USDA’s flat-rate reimbursement system. Throughout the response, DATCP had extensive interaction with various state, local, and private stakeholders.   
• Gov. Evers, together with DATCP, launched the application for the Food Security and Wisconsin Products Grant Program, which the governor secured continued funding for through a $10 million investment in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget. The program is designed to provide funding to nonprofit food assistance organizations for the purpose of purchasing food for Wisconsin’s food security network, as well as to support the growth and operations of Wisconsin food producers and processors. 
• The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service announced it would be partnering with DATCP to award $23.2 million for 30 projects through the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI) to strengthen local and regional food systems. USDA announced an additional $3.1 million in RFSI funding was awarded to the state in October. 
• During FY25, DATCP conducted 41 WIAE-funded trade promotion activities, assisting 174 Wisconsin companies and 27 organizations. According to DATCP, the combined immediate and anticipated sales from FY25 activities are over $30 million. 
• Over the course of the year, Gov. Evers and DATCP announced 20 Wisconsin dairy companies would be receiving Dairy Processor Grants to help foster innovation, improve profitability, and sustain the long-term viability of Wisconsin’s dairy processing facilities. Seven Dairy Processor Grant recipients were announced in June, and 13 were announced in December. 
• The Wisconsin Farm Center’s Farmer Wellness Program saw continued growth, with Wisconsin farmers or their family members attending 504 counseling sessions. This is the first time the 500-session threshold has been crossed.  
• This year, DATCP registered over 520 Wisconsinites as members of the Something Special from Wisconsin™ program, including 148 members who have been in the program for over a decade. 

Making Sure Government Works and Works Better for the People of Wisconsin  

• In January, Gov. Evers announced his proposal requiring the Wisconsin State Legislature to allow the people of Wisconsin to put binding referenda on the ballot in Wisconsin, enabling Wisconsinites to enact statutory and constitutional changes through a majority vote at the ballot box and without the Legislature’s approval. The governor’s proposal, which was included in his 2025-27 Executive Budget, came as Wisconsinites saw five statewide referenda questions in 2024—the most in a single year in over four decades, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel—all of which were drafted, legislatively passed, and placed on the ballot by Republican lawmakers, largely without direct input from the people of Wisconsin. Unfortunately, the Republican-controlled state budget committee stripped this proposal from the final 2025-27 Biennial Budget. 
• Gov. Evers delivered his 2025 State of the State address. The governor’s address is available to watch here. 
• This year, Wisconsin became the first state to offer a digital license option to all occupational license holders through DSPS. Professionals credentialed through DSPS can now download a digital version of their license to the digital wallet on their cell phone or tablet. DSPS was recognized for this innovative approach to licensing, having received the La Follette/Gladfelter Award for Innovation in State Government at the Wisconsin Policy Forum’s 33rd Salute to Local Government Awards and a Government Experience Award from the Center for Digital Government. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DOR, announced that the individual income tax filing season began on Mon., Jan. 27, 2025, and encouraged Wisconsin taxpayers to use the state’s WisTax and new federal Direct File services to file their state and federal income taxes online for free. Unfortunately, President Trump and the Trump Administration have since ended the Direct File program, which saved Wisconsinites time and money on their taxes.  
• Gov. Evers delivered his 2025-27 Biennial Budget Message. The governor’s address is available to watch here. 
• In 2025, DSPS began offering a secure interface where employers can gain fixed access to the agency’s online licensing platform to verify a worker’s license status in real time. 
• Gov. Evers took action on six bills, marking the first bill action of the 2025-26 Legislative Session. The bills signed by the governor included continuing the successful electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to help combat the opioid epidemic and prescription drug misuse, as well as creating parity for records management for Tribal Nations in Wisconsin and providing wage increases for certain public employees in the building trades.   
• Throughout 2025, DOR processed over 3.2 million individual income tax returns and over 3.8 million business tax returns. The average processing time for individual income tax returns was just over five days, and only 1.6 days for a return with no errors. In addition, DOR collected: 
  • $22.1 billion in tax revenue; 
  • $362.8 million in delinquent taxes; and 
  • $77.5 million in statewide debt for more than 600 state agencies and local governments. 
• DOR fielded more than 703,000 customer phone calls with an average wait time of 86 seconds and served more than 32,000 customer walk-in visits throughout 2025. 
• DOR reported that pre-refund auditing of tax returns adjusted or stopped more than $136 million in incorrect or fraudulent refunds from being issued. The agency also reported that it returned $41.4 million in unclaimed property in FY 2025 to the rightful owners. 
• DOR reported that the Wisconsin Lottery had its fifth-highest sales ever in FY 2025, with over $861.7 million in total sales. Lottery scratch games also had their fifth-highest sales ever, with over $607.1 million in FY 2025. 
• The Wisconsin DMV worked around the clock with all hands-on deck to ensure Wisconsinites were ready for the federal REAL ID deadline in May 2025. Through a series of media events, educational messages and strategic DMV staffing, Wisconsin has one of the highest REAL ID compliance rates in the country, currently hovering around 70 percent.
• This summer, DSPS celebrated a near-record month for new licenses issued, having issued 6,800 new license applications in June—making it one of the top three most productive months in the history of the agency. In his budget request this year, Gov. Evers asked for nine full-time licensing positions at DSPS and 14 full-time positions in the agency’s call center to continue efficient and successful customer service operations to address the high demand for licensed occupations. Republicans in the Legislature ultimately declined to approve necessary resources in the state budget that would enable the department to continue processing license applications at the fastest rate in state history. The cuts will dramatically slow the agency’s current licensing pace, reversing historic progress at the agency. 
• In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade three years ago—a decision that effectively forced Wisconsin to operate under a near-complete abortion ban, even in the cases of rape and incest, for over a year—the Wisconsin Supreme Court released a decision protecting reproductive freedom and affirming Wisconsinites continue to have access to abortion care in a challenge brought by Gov. Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul. 
• Gov. Evers celebrated to the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s 5-2 decision in Evers v. Marklein II. The case, brought by Gov. Evers in 2023 against the Wisconsin State Legislature, argued Republican-controlled committees such as the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules are unconstitutionally and unlawfully obstructing basic government functions and operations by indefinitely or temporarily blocking or suspending administrative rules. The Wisconsin Supreme Court determined statutes giving a legislative committee ‘the power to pause, object to, or suspend administrative rules for varying lengths of time, both before and after promulgation’ are facially unconstitutional.  
• Gov. Evers, in celebration of National Ice Cream Month, hosted a statewide “Ice Cream Town Hall” tour, where he traveled across the state to local ice cream parlors, drive ins, and scoop shops to meet with local leaders and community members to hear directly from Wisconsinites about the issues they care about, discuss measures included in the pro-kid, bipartisan biennial state budget that Gov. Evers signed into law to support Wisconsin kids, families, and communities, and to listen to concerns about the impacts of recent federal funding cuts to critical programs Wisconsinites depend on everyday. 
• DSPS added a chart tracking call volume and hold times in the agency’s call center to its performance data dashboards. The chart, on the agency’s Occupational Licensing: By the Numbers dashboards, tracks average wait time in minutes and includes a corresponding trend line showing how many thousands of calls are received each week. 
• Wisconsin was once again awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada. Wisconsin received the award for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report issued by the State Controller’s Office for FY 2023-24. 
• Gov. Evers, in celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, joined the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission to take action on Executive Order #277, which advances on a number of issues around Tribal Treaty Rights and stewardship, including preserving cultural resources and languages and ensuring sustainable food production like wild rice. 
• Gov. Evers celebrated Wisconsin’s continued fiscal success and outlook despite continued national economic uncertainty and volatility. The Evers Administration announced in October that the state ended FY 2025 with a positive ending balance of $4.6 billion in the General Fund—the state’s main checking account—exceeding previous estimates by over $265 million. Additionally, the state’s ‘rainy day’ fund, also known as the Budget Stabilization Fund, increased to approximately $2 billion. This is the largest balance in the ‘rainy day’ fund in state history, which has grown by over $1.6 billion under Gov. Evers’ leadership, more than six times what it was at the end of FY 2018, prior to the governor taking office. 
• DWD’s Worker’s Compensation Division completed a modernization of its injury claim system, improving data quality, document processing, and customer service.   
• In October, Gov. Evers took action on 19 bills. The bills signed by the governor included providing safeguards for 911 call centers and dispatchers when transferring a call to the national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and allowing law enforcement to impound and retain vehicles used to drive recklessly until all outstanding fees, fines, and forfeitures are paid, among others. 
• Gov. Evers, together with DCF, announced the launch of new online tools to help Wisconsinites interested in starting a licensed or certified child care program navigate the regulation process, cutting license processing times nearly in half and helping to bolster the child care industry by making licensure and certification more accessible and more straightforward for interested applicants. 
• DCF released the Wisconsin Shares Child Care Estimator to help families estimate how much they may be able to receive in subsidy funds, helping them better determine their out-of-pocket costs and choose the right child care provider for their family. DCF also made changes to allow parents to use all Wisconsin Shares subsidy funds when paying their child care provider to align with federal regulations and provide additional support to child care providers to better account for the actual cost of care. 
• In December, Gov. Evers took action on 34 bills. The bills signed by the governor include efforts to keep kids, families, and communities safe, including roadway safety and increasing penalties for human trafficking and trafficking of a child, making changes to several medical related boards and joining a multi-state Respiratory Care Interstate Compact to promote the health and safety of Wisconsinites, supporting local governments, exempting Gold Star family members from the personalized license plate fee for a Gold Star specialty license plate, and initiatives to expand access to quality, affordable housing statewide, among others. In addition to signing 34 bills in December, Gov. Evers vetoed nine bills. 
• This year, DOA developed and finalized the Tribal Basics for State Employees training, which is now live and will be required for all state employees in 2026. 
• This year, the DOR distributed more than $3 billion in shared revenue and property tax credit payments to 1,922 governments across Wisconsin. 
• This year, Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission’s actions in utility rate cases will save customers of the state’s largest utilities approximately $56.7 million in 2026 and 2027. 
• This year, DATCP worked to increase communication to the dairy industry by combining critical data points that are sent to dairy plant personnel into one report. Dairy plants now have data in a single source to make informed decisions.
• Gov. Evers announced that, for the sixth consecutive year during his tenure, the state’s General Fund recorded a positive balance at the end of the 2024-25 fiscal year using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). 

Investing in 21st-Century Infrastructure 

• In January, Gov. Evers and WisDOT celebrated the opening of the first electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Wisconsin funded by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Fast-charging stations came online in at Kwik Trip stores in Ashland, Menomonie, and Chippewa Falls. In November, Gov. Evers announced that 26 additional locations will receive grant awards totaling $14 million. According to WisDOT, as of December 2025, 12 EV charging sites funded through this program are operational and serving drivers in Wisconsin. 
• Gov. Evers, chair of the Wisconsin State Building Commission, announced the Commission approved a comprehensive budget adjustment for various UW System projects and authority to construct two important projects. 
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT, announced Harbor Assistance Program grants totaling more than $10 million for five harbor maintenance and construction projects in La Crosse, La Pointe, Marinette, Green Bay, and Manitowoc. Improvements will help strengthen supply chain reliability, support waterborne freight, and assist with economic development in Wisconsin’s coastal communities. 
• Gov. Evers joined U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), WisDOT, and Amtrak in celebrating the announcement of a $38.6 million federal grant to fund operating costs during the first six years of service for the Borealis train, the newest passenger rail service in Wisconsin.  
• Throughout the year, Gov. Evers announced that municipalities across the state received a total of more than $568 million in General Transportation, Connecting Highway, and Expressway Policing Aids for the calendar year 2025. The bipartisan 2025-27 Biennial Budget, signed by Gov. Evers in July, built upon the governor’s and the Evers Administration’s good work by continuing to invest in the state’s transportation infrastructure with $1.1 billion in new funding for key transportation investments, including increasing the state’s General Transportation Aids program by another three percent in each year of the biennium.  
•  Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT, announced an investment of $100 million through the Agricultural Roads Improvement Program, created by bipartisan legislation and the 2023-25 Biennial Budget signed by Gov. Evers, for 55 projects to assist with fixing and upgrading aging local roads that support Wisconsin’s farmers and producers, as well as statewide agricultural and forestry industries in 36 counties across the state. Projects that received funding are focused on improving rural roads and culverts that are critical to moving and transporting agricultural and forestry products efficiently and effectively across the state. 
• DOA announced $11.8 million in grants to for the purchase of 15 public transit buses serving Janesville, Wausau, Green Bay, and Beloit. The new buses replace old, inefficient buses using funding from the State of Wisconsin Transit Capital Assistance Grant Program. The program is funded through a court settlement as a result of Volkswagen’s violation of the federal Clean Air Act, rather than state tax dollars.
• Gov. Evers announced the Wisconsin State Building Commission approved important projects totaling approximately $103.4 million statewide, including authorization of Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program Property Development funds and efforts to complete the Forensic Science and Protective Medicine Facility for the Wisconsin Department of Justice to replace the outdated, overcrowded, and deficient existing Milwaukee Crime Lab.
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT, announced over $6.3 million in funding to 58 agencies across the state through the Specialized Transit Program to improve local transportation services for seniors and individuals with disabilities.  
• The Wisconsin Broadband Office launched the Wisconsin Broadband Almanac, which provides summary statistics on broadband access, affordability, and adoption at the state and local community level.
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT, announced that $320,600 in state funds is anticipated to support improving more than 930 miles of county forest roads in 24 counties across the state. Supporting the safety, security, and reliability of Wisconsin’s county forest roads is vital, as, according to the DNR, each year, county forests generate approximately $40 to 50 million in timber revenues, resulting in approximately 16,000 jobs and $4.6 billion in forest products production.  
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT Secretary Kristina Boardman, joined Ho-Chunk Nation leaders, state and local officials, and citizens of the Ho-Chunk Nation at a ceremony in La Crosse to unveil signs designating a section of Interstate 90 as the “Ho-Chunk World War II Code Talkers Memorial Highway” in Western Wisconsin. 
• In May, the PSC announced $750,000 in grants from the Nonprofit Access Grant Program and the Lifeline Outreach Grant Program, both of which are funded by the Universal Service Fund and help people in Wisconsin access essential telecommunications services.
• Gov. Evers, during National EMS Week, joined local leaders in the city of Peshtigo to celebrate the grand opening of the city’s newly expanded fire station, EMS facility, and library, which was funded in part by a $3 million grant awarded to the city through Gov. Evers’ Neighborhood Investment Fund grant program. 
• Gov. Evers joined local leaders in Stanley to celebrate the groundbreaking of the D.R. Moon Memorial Library expansion project, which was made possible with a $4.1 million grant from the Evers Administration.  
• Gov. Evers, together with PSC, announced the release of the Governor’s Task Force on Broadband Access’ fifth annual report. Building upon findings from the previous task force reports, the 2025 report provides an update on achievements under Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration to expand access, adoption, and affordability of high-speed internet across Wisconsin.  
• Gov. Evers took action on six bills, including two bills to advance the state’s nuclear energy innovation by requiring a study of nuclear energy opportunities and potential nuclear power and fusion sites in Wisconsin and creating a Nuclear Power Summit Board designed to help advance nuclear power and fusion technology and development and showcase Wisconsin’s leadership in the nuclear industry.  
• This summer, DSPS implemented the first update to the Wisconsin Commercial Building Code (CBC) since 2018. 
• Gov. Evers announced that the Wisconsin State Building Commission met at the Wisconsin State Fair and approved a total of approximately $110.2 million in key projects statewide. 
• Gov. Evers joined representatives from Domtar Paper Company LLC, as well as local elected leaders and stakeholders, in Rothschild for the groundbreaking of a project that will modernize a section of the 113-year-old Rothschild Dam on Lake Wausau. The 2025-27 Biennial Budget included $42 million in state funding to support the repair and modernization of the Rothschild Dam. By securing these cost-sharing partnerships, Domtar will invest $100 million in North Central Wisconsin via its Rothschild and Nekoosa manufacturing operations over the next three years.
• Gov. Evers announced over $18.6 million in Community Development Block Grants to support community improvement projects in 21 communities, including projects improving or repairing local roads, drainage systems, water and sewer systems, sidewalks, and other public facilities on which the community relies. 
• Gov. Evers, together with PSC, announced another major milestone in the state’s efforts to expand high-speed internet statewide. On Sept. 3, 2025, PSC submitted the state’s Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program Final Proposal to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for approval. The Final Proposal provides information about important aspects of the program, includes the results of Wisconsin’s BEAD sub-granting process, and details preliminary awards intended to expand access to high-speed internet to more than 174,000 homes and businesses across the state. 
• Gov. Evers launched the next round of grant funding for the Non-State Grant Program to support local infrastructure improvement and community development projects across the state. The $50 million program, created by Gov. Eves in 2023, serves as a catalyst for community development, empowering local organizations to undertake construction projects that have a profound public purpose by supporting economic and community development, bolstering Wisconsin’s infrastructure, and improving the overall quality of life in the state. 
• On Sept. 11, 2025, the Evers Administration received official notice that the Trump Administration had approved Gov. Evers’ request for a major disaster declaration for counties impacted by recent severe storms and flooding, which preliminary damage estimates determined caused 1,500 residential structures to be destroyed or sustain major damage with total damage costs estimated at over $33 million, as well as more than $43 million in public sector damage throughout six Wisconsin counties.
• This year, Gov. Evers celebrated several new dual-language highway signs unveiled for placement on state highways as part of WisDOT’s Dual-Language Sign Program.  
  • In July, Gov. Evers, together with Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians President John Johnson Sr. and WisDOT Secretary Boardman, celebrated dual-language highway signs identifying Lac du Flambeau’s Tribal boundaries and four lakes in both the Ojibwe and English languages. 
  • In September, together with Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribal Chairman Robert Blanchard and WisDOT Secretary Boardman, Gov. Evers celebrated dual-language highway signs identifying Bad River’s Tribal boundaries and two river crossings in both the Ojibwemowin and English languages.  
  • Then, in December, Gov. Evers, together with Ho-Chunk Nation President Jon Greendeer and Wisconsin WisDOT Secretary Boardman, celebrated dual-language highway signs identifying Ho-Chunk Nation communities and the Mississippi River in both the Ho-Chunk and English languages. 
• Gov. Evers announced Wisconsin Emergency Management  and the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrapped up the joint Preliminary Damage Assessments for Public Assistance in six counties following severe storms and flooding in August. 
• Gov. Evers joined local leaders, community members, and representatives from the Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood for the grand opening of the new state-of-the-art Kenosha Innovation Center, the completion of which was supported by a $14 million grant awarded through Gov. Evers’ Neighborhood Investment Fund program.  
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT and the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the state’s first Rustic Road at Timm’s Hill County Park in Ogema, just miles from Rustic Road 1 in Taylor County, which runs between WIS 102 and County D, near the village of Rib Lake.  
• Gov. Evers, together with Forest County Potawatomi Tribal Chairman Brooks Boyd Sr. and WisDOT Assistant Deputy Secretary Joel Nilsestuen, celebrated the grand opening of the new multi-use path along U.S. Highway 8 in Forest County. The Evers Administration, through WisDOT, helped support this project with more than $939,000 in funding awarded to the Tribe through the Transportation Alternatives Program.
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT, announced an over $700,000 Transportation Economic Assistance (TEA) grant awarded to the village of Saukville. The grant will support the creation of 146 jobs through a roadway improvement project to accommodate traffic flow for employees, vendors, and deliveries for an orthodontic manufacturing and distribution company. The governor also announced the village of Slinger would receive a $165,000 TEA program grant. The grant will help the hardware manufacturer Allegis Corporation relocate part of its business from Illinois to Wisconsin, supporting the creation of 33 new jobs, while establishing the infrastructure needed to support future economic development in a new commercial and industrial development in the area. 
• Throughout 2025, DOA distributed more than $29 million in Flexible Facilities program funds to libraries and community centers across the state to increase broadband accessibility. 
• As of Dec. 1, PSC approved 1,228 Megawatts Alternating Current of solar projects across the state. 
• Gov. Evers, together with PSC, announced a major milestone in the state’s efforts to expand high-speed internet statewide under a federal program designed to expand access to high-speed internet across the country. On Dec. 2, the federal government approved Wisconsin’s final proposal, which will unlock over $1 billion in federal investments secured under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Joe Biden. The Evers Administration’s proposal aims at expanding access to high-speed internet to more than 175,000 homes and businesses across the state, building upon Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration’s efforts to close the digital divide. 
• Gov. Evers, together with WisDOT, in December unveiled the designs of Wisconsin’s newest state license plates, a Blackout design and a Retro butter yellow design, depicted here. The bipartisan 2025-27 Biennial Budget signed by Gov. Evers included $5.5 million in funding to support the introduction of these two new specialty license plates, which are estimated to generate more than $25 million for the state’s transportation fund in the first three years. The additional revenue for the state transportation fund will help build upon the Evers Administration’s efforts to invest in Wisconsin’s infrastructure to ensure it meets the needs of a 21st-century workforce and economy.  
• According to WisDOT, 2025 marked a significant increase in highway project delivery, with 456 state-let improvement projects conducted in all corners of Wisconsin, including completion of the I-43 North-South project in Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties and completion of the I-90 rest area near Sparta.   
• This year, PSC approved 48 water utility infrastructure construction projects, including wells, utility operations centers, transmission mains, elevated tanks, booster stations, water treatment facilities, and water main extension worth over an estimated $266 million. The projects included several PFAS treatment facilities to ensure clean drinking water in Wisconsin.

Honoring and Supporting Wisconsin’s Veterans and their Families 

• Gov. Evers slammed new plans by President Donald Trump and the Trump Administration to cut as many as 80,000 employees from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which comes as President Trump and the Trump Administration have already fired nearly 6,000 veterans—reportedly more than any U.S. president in American history. 
• In March, Gov. Evers traveled across Wisconsin, visiting veteran service organizations in Delafield, Oconto Falls, and Lake Tomahawk, where he highlighted his administration’s efforts to uplift and support veterans. 
• In April, Gov. Evers, together with DWD, announced Wisconsin had retained a top-five ranking in America for successfully helping veterans find employment for the second consecutive year.  
• Gov. Evers, in the 2025-27 bipartisan Biennial Budget he signed in July, was proud to include several investments to support the state’s veterans, including:  
  • $200,000 increase for transportation grants to counties for providing transportation to medical facilities for veterans over the biennium;  
  • $5 million to support the operations of the Wisconsin Veterans homes; 
  • $50,000 to increase the grant amount for Camp American Legion;   
  • Providing a five percent increase for county veterans service officers and Tribal veterans service offices that serve veterans in communities across the state; 
  • $2.5 million for a new grant program to fund housing and comprehensive support services to veterans;   
  • $100,000 for installation of flagpole-related infrastructure at veterans homes; 
  • $35 million for needed capital building projects at the Wisconsin Veterans Homes to repair plumbing, abate lead, replace boilers, and improve technology;  
  • $3.4 million devoted to continuing expansion of the Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery; and 
  • $5 million to support a grant for war memorials in populous counties to honor our nation’s heroes. 
• Gov. Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA), announced nine nonprofit organizations are receiving funding through the Veteran Mental Health Community-Based Organization Grant program. The grants will support nonprofit efforts to promote positive mental health through activities, programs, and services that enhance the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of Wisconsin veterans, including providing case management, peer support, equine and outdoor therapies, and more.    
• Gov. Evers, together with WDVA, announced in October that two of Wisconsin’s Veteran Memorial Cemeteries had been awarded nearly $2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Cemetery Grants Program to expand capacity, upgrade facilities, and preserve the dignity, beauty, and accessibility of Wisconsin’s veterans cemeteries for generations to come.  
• This year, WDVA completed capital improvements at the three Wisconsin Veterans Homes, including electrical and HVAC updates at Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, a completed courtyard at Wisconsin Veterans Home at Chippewa Falls, and a brand-new kitchen at Wisconsin Veterans Home at Union Grove.  
• After the state’s Republican-controlled legislature failed to fully fund the Veteran Housing and Recovery Program (VHRP) in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget, several veterans were displaced due to the closure of two veterans homes in Wisconsin. WDVA worked diligently to find alternative housing for all the veterans impacted by a lack of housing, and in order to best serve the veterans in the one remaining location, WDVA completed $1.8 million in renovations at the Union Grove VHRP, including improvements to HVAC, plumbing, and flooring.   
• WDVA’s Division of Veterans Benefits dramatically reduced the turnaround time for Resource Center applications processing, going from an average of 17-20 days to 0-1 days.  
• According to DOA, 350 veteran households received assistance from the state of Wisconsin through $1.5 million from the Veteran Rental Assistance Program.   

Protecting and Conserving Wisconsin’s Natural Resources 

• Gov. Evers proclaimed 2025 the “Wisconsin State Park System 125th Anniversary” across the state, kicking off a year-long celebration to highlight the importance of Wisconsin’s State Park System and the state’s proud and rich history of conservation and protecting natural resources. In January 2025, the Statewide Comprehension Outdoor Recreation Plan received federal approval and was extended through 2030.   
• Gov. Evers signed Executive Order #250, in coordination with DNR, DOA, and WisDOT to comply with National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) guidelines for floodplain management regulations on state-owned properties, ensuring that Wisconsin maintains its status as a community under the NFIP and remains eligible for direct or indirect federal funding in the form of grants, loans, or loan guarantees and incentive funding for other state projects. 
• In January, the DNR’s Office of Applied Science unveiled the primary results of the Southwest Wisconsin Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), Deer and Predator Study. This represented the largest and most comprehensive deer study ever undertaken by DNR, with over 1200 animals monitored as part of the project. 
• The DNR awarded $6 million through the Surface Water Grant Program to nonprofit organizations, lake associations, and municipalities throughout Wisconsin working to restore and protect the state’s surface water resources.   
• Gov. Evers kicked off Earth Week and joined DNR in inviting Wisconsinites to celebrate Earth Day all week long by taking action around their own homes and communities to reduce waste, recycle, conserve water, and take small steps that can have a big impact on helping protect and conserve Wisconsin’s natural resources, improve local neighborhoods and communities, outdoor spaces, and parks, and help respond to and mitigate climate change.
• Gov. Evers, together with the DNR, released Wisconsin’s Trillion Trees Pledge 2024 Annual Report. The report shows that Wisconsin planted nearly 10.7 million trees and conserved more than 57,000 acres of forestland in the state in 2024 as part of Wisconsin’s Trillion Trees Pledge.  
• Gov. Evers wrapped up his statewide tour celebrating Earth Week, during which he visited local parks, communities, fish hatcheries, conservation groups, and more across the state to celebrate Earth Day, Forest Appreciation Week, and Arbor Day. 
• Gov. Evers, who was the first Midwest governor to serve on the executive committee, was appointedco-chair of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 24 governors representing approximately 60 percent of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the U.S. population, working to advance innovative and impactful climate solutions to grow the economy, create jobs, protect public health, and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
• Gov. Evers, together with DOA, announced that the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program (WCMP) received over $750,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The investments awarded will support the WCMP’s ability to plan for and implement habitat restoration and conservation projects in Wisconsin’s coastal communities, including supporting ongoing flood management, assessing shoreline erosion, restoring wetlands, and building more resilient coastal communities. 
  • Additionally, Gov. Evers and DOA similarly announced that the WCMP had been awarded a $209,894 grant through the NOAA Project of Special Merit competition to create the Wisconsin Great Lakes Coastal Leadership Academy. 
• Gov. Evers celebrated the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s 5-2 decision affirming the DNR’s authority to enforce reporting and clean up for harmful contaminants like PFAS and upheld Wisconsin’s Spills Law, which regulates parties responsible for discharging harmful substances into Wisconsin’s environment and requires discharges to be reported and the environment to be restored to minimize harmful effects.
• Gov. Evers signed Senate Bill 56, expanding eligibility for the state’s Safe Drinking Water Loan Program to include principal loan forgiveness for private utility companies that replace lead service lines. Prior to Act 8, Wisconsin state statutes outlined that a privately owned water utility was prohibited from receiving principal loan forgiveness from the state’s Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. 
• Gov. Evers sent a letter to the Trump Administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin regarding federal efforts to terminate the critical Solar for All Grant Program. 
• Gov. Evers announced over $22 million in federal funding from the federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program to support local projects aimed at reducing traffic delays and congestion, increasing travel efficiency, and reducing air pollution across Wisconsin. 
• Gov. Evers, co-chair of the U.S. Climate Alliance, announced that Wisconsin joined the Alliance’s Affordable Clean Cars Coalition. This multi-state initiative is aimed at sustaining America’s transition to cleaner and more affordable cars, supporting U.S. automotive manufacturers and workers, and improving air quality for all.
• Over the course of 2025, the DNR worked to restore five different contaminated sites across Wisconsin where hazardous waste was illegally stored and transported.
• Gov. Evers, together with DOA and the Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy (OSCE), highlighted the release of the 2025 Clean Energy Plan Progress Report, underscoring achievements made over the last year to advance goals established by the state’s Clean Energy Plan.  
• Gov. Evers, together with DOA, and in celebration of “Coastal Awareness Month,” announced $1.3 million in grants for 35 Wisconsin coastal communities to protect and improve the state’s Great Lakes resources and build resilience in Wisconsin’s coastal communities.  
• Gov. Evers, together with the DNR, announced more than $282 million has been allocated for financial assistance through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program to 74 municipalities across the state to improve drinking water quality for Wisconsinites. The funding will help municipalities construct needed water infrastructure projects, including those that address contaminants such as PFAS and nitrates, with a special focus on small and disadvantaged communities. 
• This year, the DNR collaborated with UW-Madison's Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, DHS, and UW-Madison's Division of Extension to design and launch an online tool, Be Well Informed, that can help private well owners interpret their drinking water lab test results. The tool is tailored to Wisconsin’s drinking water environment and includes current water guidelines and standards. Resources are also available to help private well owners make informed decisions about the results.
• Gov. Evers, together with DNR, announced more than $159 million had been allocated for financial assistance through the Lead Service Line Replacement Program to 29 municipalities across the state to ensure Wisconsinites have access to clean, safe drinking water that is free of lead. The funding will help municipalities replace lead service lines, with a special focus on small and disadvantaged communities.   
• DOA awarded nearly $391,000 to 17 local organizations to support community engagement and outreach for climate action through the Wisconsin Climate Action Navigators Network and engaged with over 2175 participants at events across Wisconsin focused on sustainability, climate action, and clean energy. 
• DNR staff conducted nearly 32,000 acres of burns in fiscal year 2025, helping the state’s wildlife, including some of our rarest species, along with many unique natural areas. 
• In 2025, DNR completed the field component of the trout-beaver interactions study, one of the largest statewide fisheries research field initiatives ever conducted to inform beaver influences on trout populations and habitat. 
• DNR implemented a new 12-month from date of purchase annual state park pass, a change from the historic calendar year format. The entire state park pass system was redesigned and strategically implemented to enhance the customer experience and staff efficiencies, and admission pass sales increased in every month in 2025, except February and September. 
• The Wisconsin State Park System also signed an historic collaboration with WisDOT that will allow Wisconsin residents to purchase State Park Admission stickers when they renew their vehicle registration. This will be available starting in 2026. 
• This year, DNR distributed more than 4.6 million seedlings to private and public landowners. Of these, 26,000 seedlings went to school forests, and over 56,000 seedlings were provided to 4th graders across the state for Arbor Day, an annual tradition since 1984. 
• To date, Gov. Evers has provided $15 million to support the expanded ARPA Well Compensation and Well Abandonment grant programs, increasing the total grantees to 959 statewide. This includes the replacement of 568 contaminated wells, the treatment of 157 contaminated wells, the connection to a municipal water supply for four contaminated wells, and the sealing of 230 unused, abandoned wells. 
• The DNR’s Recycling Program awarded $20 million in grant funding to 1,048 cities, towns, villages, counties, Tribes, and solid waste management systems to help offset residential recycling and yard waste costs associated with the planning and operating of municipal recycling programs. The Recycling Grant Program helped to divert approximately 405,255 tons of refuse from landfills. 
• The DNR awarded over $1.3 million in grant funding through the Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities grant program to help small public water systems, including public schools, mobile home parks and a nonprofit medical facility, to address PFAS and manganese contamination in drinking water.   
• The DNR’s Nonpoint Source grant programs were awarded nearly $5.3 million for 27 projects to begin in 2026. These grants will fund projects that reduce nutrient runoff from urban and agricultural areas into the state’s waters. 
• The DNR’s Sustainability and Business Support Section successfully launched Enviro-Nav (Environmental Responsibility Navigator). Financed through funding provided in the state’s 2023-25 Biennial Budget, this tool is a one-stop shop for information on many DNR regulatory programs, empowering customers at any stage of business development from construction and new business startups to ongoing facility operations. 
• The DNR’s watershed grants programs awarded $7.15 million in 2025 to counties and communities for projects to reduce nutrient runoff from urban and agricultural areas into the state’s waters. This money was made available through DNR’s Targeted Runoff Management, Urban Nonpoint Source and Notice of Discharge grants.

Protecting Wisconsinites from Reckless Federal Actions  

• Gov. Evers and Attorney General Kaul announced Wisconsin joined a coalition of states challenging an unconstitutional executive order issued by the Trump Administration that attempted to end citizenship for certain kids born in America, violating Americans’ constitutional rights to which all kids born in the United States have long been entitled. 
• Gov. Evers and Attorney General Kaul announced Wisconsin would be joining a coalition of states in a lawsuit to immediately stop a Trump Administration policy aimed at unilaterally forcing all federal agencies to stop nearly all federal assistance and grant and loan funding that support kids, families, and communities in Wisconsin and across our country. The Trump Administration’s policy would have immediately jeopardized critical federal benefits and investments that provide crucial health and childcare services, support public schools, combat hate crimes and violence against women, and provide life-saving disaster relief to states, among other critical programs. 
• Gov. Evers released a statement regarding a new lawsuit brought by a multi-state coalition, including Wisconsin, against the Trump Administration and aimed at protecting Wisconsinites’ Social Security numbers, bank account information, and other sensitive personal details from unauthorized access. 
• Gov. Evers released a statement regarding Wisconsin joining a new multi-state lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from gutting funding for life-saving medical research, which would have a devastating impact on Wisconsin, the state’s flagship campus, and renowned research institutions in the UW System and across the country. 
• Gov. Evers released an open letter to Congressional Republicans, including Republican members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation, urging them to take swift and urgent action to stand up for Wisconsin and fight against President Trump and the Trump Administration’s reckless, chaotic decisions and efforts to erode constitutional checks and balances and end attacks on federal programs and the federal workforce that are already hurting Wisconsinites and Americans across the country.   
• Gov. Evers released a statement regarding a multi-state lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from gutting critical federal funding at the U.S. Department of Education. 
• Gov. Evers released a statement on a new lawsuit suing the Trump Administration for illegally firing federal workers, including thousands of veterans. 
• Gov. Evers slammed the Trump Administration for once again trying to walk back promises to Wisconsin’s farmers and producers and urged the Trump Administration to reverse course on cuts to federal programs and immediately release Wisconsin’s promised funding. 
• Gov. Evers released a statement regarding a new lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the Trump Administration to stop their efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. 
• Gov. Evers released a letter sent to former Wisconsin Congressman and now USDOT Secretary Sean Duffy, urging immediate action to prevent uncertainty and potential delays for Wisconsin infrastructure projects, including addressing threats to funding and delays for projects in Wisconsin and across the country. 
• Gov. Evers announced the Evers Administration would be boosting efforts aimed at supporting federal workers affected by the Trump Administration’s reckless mass firings. In the weeks leading up to Gov. Evers’ announcement, President Trump and the Trump Administration had baselessly and illegally attempted to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, including thousands of veterans—reportedly more than any U.S. president in American history. 
• Gov. Evers announced Wisconsin joined a new lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from attempting to gut over $225 million in federal funding the state expected to receive to help support mental and behavioral health services, prevent and respond to substance misuse and the opioid epidemic, bolster local public health, and strengthen local emergency medical services.  
• Gov. Evers announced Wisconsin joined a lawsuit suing the Trump Administration for cutting funding for libraries and museums in Wisconsin, including the UW-Stevens Point Olson Museum of Natural History. The cuts are also expected to affect the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and over a dozen librarian positions across the state. 
• Gov. Evers announced Wisconsin joined a new lawsuit to prevent the Trump Administration from cutting federal funding for Wisconsin public schools. The lawsuit aims to protect the more than half a billion dollars Wisconsin receives each year from the U.S. Department of Education after the Trump Administration attempted to put new, unlawful conditions on federal funding beyond what is required by the U.S. Congress under threat of cuts to public schools in Wisconsin and across America. 
• In April, Gov. Evers slammed the Trump Administration for abrupt cuts to AmeriCorps affecting Serve Wisconsin, terminating dozens of programs and ending services at over 300 sites across Wisconsin. In response, Gov. Evers announced Wisconsin joined a multi-state lawsuit suing the Trump Administration over the cuts, and thanks to the governor’s advocacy and national efforts to support AmeriCorps programming, in June, a judge blocked the Trump Administration’s illegal actions to strip funding away from critical resources Wisconsinites rely on, ordering the federal government to restore funding to AmeriCorps programs across the nation, including in Wisconsin. As a result, in December, Gov. Evers, together with Serve Wisconsin, announced that Wisconsin received $9.3 million in grant funding from AmeriCorps. The grant funds will support critical youth and after-school programming, including early literacy, college preparation, math tutoring, and classroom support, conservation and habitat restoration efforts, recovery coaching, homelessness and runaway assistance for youth, efforts to address local health needs and remove barriers to healthcare access, and more statewide. 
• Gov. Evers announced a new lawsuit Wisconsin joined against the Trump Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for reckless, devastating cuts that will effectively dismantle the federal agency that is responsible for helping keep Wisconsinites and Americans healthy and safe. 
• Gov. Evers announced Wisconsin joined a new lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from blocking over $60 million in NEVI Formula Program funding Wisconsin expected to receive to support electric vehicle infrastructure projects across the state.  
• Gov. Evers sent multiple letters to the Trump Administration in May and July, urging immediate action to prevent funding and staff cuts that will impact Wisconsin’s forests and the state’s critical forestry industry. 
• Gov. Evers, alongside a coalition of 15 other governors from states and territories across the nation, sent a joint letter to members of the U.S. Senate and House Committees on Appropriations, urging them to defend funding for Head Start programs that offer high-quality early learning, health, and family support services to over 800,000 kids nationwide. 
• Gov. Evers sent a letter urging the Trump Administration to immediately reverse course on its attempts to cut approximately $29 million Wisconsin expected to receive to help support and complete Wisconsin’s years-long efforts to modernize the unemployment insurance system and efficiently and effectively prevent benefit fraud and waste.
• Gov. Evers, in a letter to every member of Wisconsin’s Congressional delegation sent in September, urged bipartisan opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget, calling on Congress to reject the president’s reckless cuts to critical programs that keep Wisconsinites safe, keep local budgets stable, and sustain progress in every region of the state.
• Gov. Evers blasted President Donald Trump and the Trump Administration over efforts to withhold more than $6 billion for K-12 school districts across the country, including over $72 million for Wisconsin’s kids and schools that the state was expecting to receive. These critical funds support the state’s K-12 kids and schools and technical colleges through after-school and summer programs, English-learning programs, educator trainings, and more.
• Gov. Evers sent a letter to every member of Wisconsin’s Congressional delegation urging bipartisan opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposed budget and calling on Congress to reject the president’s reckless cuts to critical programs and services that support Wisconsin’s kids, students, schools, and families. 
• Gov. Evers sent a letter to the Trump Administration and every member of Wisconsin’s Congressional delegation urging federal leadership to support reauthorizing the SBA’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, which are instrumental in supporting the success and growth of Wisconsin small businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovative technology industry. 
• Gov. Evers, alongside a coalition of 17 other governors, sent a joint letter to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, urging Congress to extend the enhanced premium tax credits provided by the Affordable Care Act.
• Gov. Evers sent a letter amid reports that the Trump Administration plans to terminate over 600 U.S. Department of Energy funding awards, including more than $1.5 billion in approved funding to Wisconsin-based companies and organizations or projects located in Wisconsin with energy-related goals and objectives.
• Gov. Evers announced that the Trump Administration denied Wisconsin’s application for Public Assistance for Door, Grant, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, and Waukesha counties after severe storms and flooding caused severe damage to public infrastructure in August. In response, the governor announced he will be filing an appeal to ensure these six communities receive the support they need to rebuild, recover, and address more than $26.5 million in disaster costs.
• Gov. Evers urged President Trump and the Trump Administration to support and protect the livelihoods of American farmers, ranchers, and producers and back off its plans to import beef from Argentina. In a letter to the Trump Administration, Gov. Evers raised alarm about the significant impacts President Trump’s proposed policy will have on farmers and cattle producers across the nation in the Badger State, where livestock and meat represent a $34 billion industry employing more than 43,000 people. 
• Gov. Evers and a coalition of governors pressed the Trump Administration to use billions of dollars in readily available federal funding to prevent millions of Americans, including nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, from having to go hungry after losing access to food assistance due to the federal government shutdown. Based on a Trump Administration directive, Wisconsin FoodShare, which is 100 percent funded by the federal government, was in jeopardy and at the time of Gov. Evers’ letter, was set to end on Nov. 1 due to the federal government shutdown. In response, Gov. Evers had repeatedly urged the Trump Administration to use USDA powers already authorized under federal law to help extend SNAP assistance into November, which would delay millions of Americans from losing access to basic food and groceries.
• Gov. Evers signed Executive Order #278 declaring a state of emergency and a period of abnormal economic disruption in the state of Wisconsin due to the federal government shutdown and a lapse in FoodShare benefits, which jeopardized access to critical resources and programs that are necessary for the health, safety, well-being, and economic security of Wisconsinites. The governor’s executive order directed DATCP to begin enforcing against price gouging as nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites lose access to food assistance that ensures they can afford basic food and groceries, and directs all executive branch state agencies to take any and all measures to respond, including reviewing and suspending any administrative rules that will hinder or delay the state’s response to the emergency.  
• Gov. Evers released a statement regarding two lawsuits affecting Wisconsin FoodShare, also known as SNAP, fighting against the Trump Administration’s decision not to use available federal funding to extend food assistance into November, forcing nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who rely on FoodShare to lose access to basic food necessities on Nov. 1.  
• Gov. Evers, in a letter to members of the Wisconsin Congressional delegation, again urged bipartisan support for reauthorization of the U.S. Farm Bill, which is critical legislation for Wisconsin’s farmers and producers and helps support critical programs like food assistance.  
• Hours after a federal court ordered the Trump Administration to stop withholding SNAP payments to states and directed the administration to use billions of dollars in readily available federal funding to provide food assistance payments to millions of Americans, Gov. Evers announced the Evers Administration immediately moved to pay full November payments for all Wisconsin FoodShare members.   
• Gov. Evers slammed the Trump Administration for making a last-ditch effort to yank more than $100 million in newly restored FoodShare payments from nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, including nearly 270,000 kids. The governor blasted the Trump Administration for making a ‘pathetic’ plea to the U.S. Supreme Court late on Fri., Nov. 7, and begging the court not to force them to use readily available federal resources to feed hungry kids, families, and seniors in Wisconsin and across America.   
• Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration led a coalition of states and governors in filing a new letter before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court to reject the Trump Administration’s last-ditch effort to yank SNAP payments from states across the country, including from nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who were paid their November payments after the program previously ran out of funding Nov. 1.  
• Gov. Evers, in a letter to Wisconsin’s congressional delegation, called out several Republican members of U.S. Congress for staying silent as the Trump Administration tried to ask Wisconsin to return FoodShare payments for nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, including about 270,000 kids, to help them afford food and groceries. Republican members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation, including U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany (WI-07), Derrick Van Orden (WI-03), Tony Wied (WI-08), Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), and Bryan Steil (WI-01), had largely remained silent about the Trump Administration actively trying to prevent Wisconsin from being able to rely on readily available federal resources to support full November FoodShare payments and efforts to yank newly restored SNAP payments from hungry kids, families, and seniors across the state.   
• Gov. Evers announced the Evers Administration joined a new court motion filing with a multi-state coalition to prevent the Trump Administration from yanking FoodShare payments from Wisconsinites. The move comes after the Trump Administration on Sat., Nov. 8, sent correspondence suggesting Wisconsin should return FoodShare payments to the federal government. The correspondence drew a strong rebuke from Gov. Evers, who responded: “No.”   
• Gov. Evers sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon demanding that she immediately release federal Impact Aid payments for 20 school districts across Wisconsin that serve over 21,000 Wisconsin kids. Schools were supposed to receive the first round of payments in October for federal school funding, known as “Impact Aid,” which is used by schools for basic operations, such as payroll, transportation, programs, and new positions, among other critical areas.
• Gov. Evers urged the Trump Administration to reverse course on its decisions to deny Wisconsin communities tens of millions of dollars in disaster relief in the wake of extreme August weather and flooding that caused millions of dollars in damages across several Wisconsin counties.  
• Gov. Evers announced Wisconsin joined a new multi-state lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from making drastic and immediate changes and cuts to critical funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Program, the main source of federal funding to help end homelessness in Wisconsin.
• Gov. Evers released a letter urging President Donald Trump and Republicans in U.S. Congress to stop any federal efforts designed to threaten, preempt, punish, or undermine states like Wisconsin that have laws on the books designed to keep kids and families safe from harmful uses of AI, highlighting several recent bipartisan efforts to enact common-sense policies in Wisconsin to address harmful uses of the emerging technology.