LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – After months of negotiations with Democrat Governor Whitmer, Republican Michigan lawmakers have unveiled and begun passing a massive $4.8 billion spending plan, one they say will upgrade long-neglected infrastructure including water pipes, dams, roads, and parks.
The plan lays out 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 today, following an initial unanimous vote by the House budget committee late Wednesday night.
