Zac Schultz: When you've been negotiating, do you have to wait for the Senate Majority Leader to go back to his members and involve his caucus? Are you going to your caucus or can you kinda speak for your caucus?

Robin Vos: Yeah, I mean, I can only speak for us. I keep him updated on a very regular basis. We talk about what's in there. I try to get a general parameter where people are comfortable with to say, "Okay, can we live with that if we give this?" It's actually been pretty productive.

Our caucus has really been engaged. They've done a great job. Every single member has things that they know are important for their part of Wisconsin. And then we all think there are things that are important for the whole state. So luckily, we're in general agreement. We wanna make sure we have great roads. We want to make sure that, you know, we have that tax relief that will really flow to real people who need it in a time when, look, prices are still high. So I think at the end of the day, we have to focus on our goal, which is to get something done that's better than current law. The thing that makes me most optimistic is, look, in the last budget, we had historic investments in public schools and healthcare.

We tried to do tax relief that was vetoed by the governor. Almost all the tax cuts were vetoed, so that didn't work. But even this time around, even with a historic tax cut that will be in our budget and some investments that are really important, our spending level will still be lower than it was two years ago. So it's not like we're, you know, on a spending binge.

We're trying to be responsible, but at the same time, get something Governor Evers can hopefully support.