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Wisconsin’s state government is struggling to achieve even its most basic goals, according to agencies’ recent budget requests. Those requests include performance measures that the agencies get to select for themselves. Oftentimes agencies select easily achievable goals that seem to have little to do with their mission, and they yet still fall short.

One of the following tweets is from a deranged psychopath who on Sunday was arrested after trying to assassinated former President Donald Trump. The other is from the current President of the United States. Try to guess which is which: Tweet 1: “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything American stands for.” Tweet 2: “Democracy is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail.

Wisconsin’s public schools don’t need so much aid in the next state budget, according to the Department of Public Instruction’s (DPI) latest budget request. It recommends that the state reduce total aid by $12.5 million (0.7%) over the next biennium. All of it would come out from general purpose revenue (GPR). That would bring the total amount of aid down from $17.26 billion in the current budget to $17.25 billion in the next budget. School aids make up the bulk of DPI’s budget.