The governor, along with Wisconsin Department of Tourism Secretary-designee Anne Sayers, cited data from the US Travel Association's Travel Recovery Insights report showing that Wisconsin has outpaced the national travel spending average for each of the past 24 months. Evers sees that as a win for Wisconsin travel and tourism.
Lawmakers are largely in a state of suspense as negotiators prepare for a very big week on the spending talks to avoid a potential government shutdown.
Corporate America has been giving more and more cash back to investors through dividends and stock buybacks. Companies are also using some of their excess cash on mergers.
A federal judge in California has denied the Trump administration's request to continue work on border wall projects in New Mexico and Arizona using Defense Department funds while an appeal is pending.
Despite many European countries boosting their defense budgets, only seven of the 29 NATO allies are currently reaching the recommended spending target of 2 percent of gross domestic product, according to NATO's annual report, which was published Thursday.
House and Senate negotiators reached bipartisan agreement on a package of spending bills, as well as a continuing resolution to fund the remainder of the government through December 7 and forestall a potential government shutdown battle, aides in both chambers told CNN on Thursday.
The House narrowly approved a rescissions package from the White House that aims to cancel billions in unspent funds from the prior fiscal year, much of which would not have been spent otherwise.
Senate Republican leaders are facing mounting pressure from President Donald Trump and a vocal group of rank-and-file senators to pass a series of spending bills ahead of their summer break and avoid a year-end messy fight to keep the government open, like the ones that have plagued Congress in the past.
You are a proud penny pincher. Your partner, on the other hand, is more of a spender. So, how can you make it work?
Sen. Rand Paul doesn't like Congress' omnibus spending bill, and he wants you to know it.
