State budget surplus approaches $3B mark

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Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau now projects that Wisconsin’s budget surplus is approaching the $3 billion mark, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The nonpartisan bureau said Thursday the state collected $23.1 billion in tax revenues during the 2025-26 fiscal year, putting the state on a course to add $450 million to its last surplus estimate of $2.5 billion…

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