Governor Evers' Proposed 2025-2027 Budget
Gov. Tony Evers’ 2025-2027 “pro-kid budget” takes a balanced approach to making investments in Wisconsin’s public health, health care, behavioral health, and long-term care systems, as well as historic investments to ensure Wisconsin kids throughout the state are fed, healthy, and feel safe. Gov. Evers recognizes that health insurance can offer security and peace of mind, and nobody should have to choose between life-saving medication and care or putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their head. This budget makes investments to make it easier for working families to get the health care they need without breaking the bank. It expands affordable health coverage to 95,800 Wisconsinites, invests in mental and behavioral health access for people across their life spans, and supports healthy moms, babies, and families across Wisconsin, reinforcing Governor Evers’ declaration of 2025 as the Year of the Kid.
Supporting a healthy Wisconsin
The budget provides coverage and aims to lower out-of-pocket costs for all Wisconsinites, expanding much-needed health care to working families. It also improves health care quality and access and invests in public health initiatives that lay the groundwork for healthy communities, supporting health everywhere Wisconsinites live, work, and play.
What's included in the budget?
Protecting public health
Public health activities lay the groundwork for healthy communities. They protect us from diseases and injury we can't prevent alone and help us change harmful behaviors. Compared to the rest of the nation, Wisconsin has been significantly underfunding its public health efforts for years. In the face of emerging and long-standing health challenges, Gov. Evers’ budget makes transformational investments into our public health system.
Increased Access to Health Care
For too many people, accessing quality health care is out of reach. To build a healthier and stronger Wisconsin, we need to shrink barriers to care by improving our public health coverage programs and private health insurance market. Gov. Evers' budget takes advantage of common-sense solutions to these problems, many of which have already been adopted in nearly every other state in the country.
Mental Health Supports
Mental health and crisis services remain critical as Wisconsin’s kids, families, and workforce continue to struggle finding the help they need. Gov. Evers’ budget continues to build on past efforts to support Wisconsin’s mental and behavioral health infrastructure, especially as levels of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts among youth across the state continue to rise at concerning rates.
Investing in Long-Term Care
Gov. Evers’ budget advances the safety and dignity of older adults and people with disabilities, wherever they live and whatever supports they need. It also makes significant investments to bolster, stabilize, and support long-term care workers, who provide care to Wisconsin’s most vulnerable residents.
Additional DHS Budget Items
- Medicaid Benefits Base
- Medicaid Administration Base
- SeniorCare
- Cemetery and Burial Aids
- Chronic Disease Program
- FoodShare Employment and Training
- Income Maintenance
- Conditional Release and Supervised Release
- DHS Supplies and Services Costs
- Interpreter Services
- MyWisconsin ID Implementation Support
- Office of Grants Management Position Funding