3/24/22 - Michigan Lawmakers and Governor Announce Spending Deal

Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 9:33 AM

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Michigan lawmakers began passing a $4.8 billion spending plan and the Governor appears ready to approve it.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers have unveiled and begun passing a massive $4.8 billion spending plan, one that will upgrade long-neglected infrastructure including water pipes, dams, roads and parks.

The legislation is the product of months of negotiations between the Republican-controlled Legislature and Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration over how to spend an unprecedented billions of discretionary pandemic funding and infrastructure aid that were enacted by Congress and President Joe Biden last year.

The governor will sign the bills that legislators plan to approve Thursday, following an initial unanimous vote by the House budget committee late Wednesday night.

 

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