LANSING, MI (MPRN)-- Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she’s angry with the Republican-led state Legislature.
That’s because it won’t be holding a session for the next two weeks – and it hasn’t finalized the budget.
“No one in Michigan, no one in any other field is allowed to go on a vacation until they get their work done. They’re expected to work and stay at the job until they’ve gotten their work done. That’s exactly what we need to demand of our leaders in Lansing as well,” she says.
Whitmer presented her proposed budget to the Legislature in March. She says she has yet to see a comprehensive funding plan from the Legislature that would fix the roads, improve education, or clean up the state’s drinking water.
Whitmer’s budget proposal contains a 45-cent fuel tax increase. Republican leaders have called it a non-starter.