GOP senator is correct, Wisconsin’s tourism budget is up 98%

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GOP senator is correct, Wisconsin’s tourism budget is up 98%
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Is Wisconsin doubling down on efforts to attract visitors? One Wisconsin lawmaker says funding for the state’s tourism d

Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal bureau summary of the state Department of Tourism ’s 2023-25 budget shows a table that puts the 2023-25 change at 97.8%.epartment is up nearly 100 percent.

"For simplicity in the radio address you are referencing, I rounded up to 98% to avoid the need to verbalize decimals in the radio address," Cowles said in an email to PolitiFact Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Evers’ office noted that when the governor introduced his 2023-25 budget, it proposed making more than $117 million in additional investments to bolster the state’s tourism industry, including efforts to expand existing programs such as the Tourism Capital Investment Grant Program, increase support for marketing and advertising initiatives, attract and recruit large-scale events and conventions to Wisconsin, and provide for the local arts with innovative programs and funds.

"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn." Wisconsin Republicans are backing “a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. ... Republicans, Democrats, and the Governor pushed this plan last time redistricting happened in 2020.”

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