Overview
- Vos announced Thursday on the Assembly floor that he will not seek reelection in November and will leave office at the end of his term.
- He said he will serve through the remainder of the year until a new class of legislators is sworn in.
- The longest-serving speaker in state history, Vos led the Assembly since 2013 after first winning election in 2004.
- His tenure advanced conservative priorities including Act 10, tax cuts, right-to-work and voter ID laws, and he helped limit Gov. Tony Evers’ powers, including during the COVID-19 era.
- He clashed with President Donald Trump over the 2020 election review, later firing a former conservative state Supreme Court justice leading the probe; Republicans’ Assembly majority has since narrowed under 2023 court-ordered maps, and Democrats express optimism about gaining control this year as Evers called the retirement the end of an era.