The new Engineering Building at the UW-Madison campus has long been a goal of Republicans, Democrats, and the business community—until GOP lawmakers started playing politics with the project in order to fight some imaginary culture war battle. Now delayed, the building is running over budget and some UW folks want to skim some funds away from a new Science Building at UW-Eau Claire. Also: Are we really facing a government shutdown ahead of the holiday break? Thank Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the latest round of congressional chaos.

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