LANSING, MI (WTVB) – 35th District State Representative Andrew Fink joined other Republicans in voting against a $82.5 billion state budget for Fiscal Year 2025 on Thursday saying it “prioritizes pet projects over the critical needs of Michigan residents”.
Fink said in a statement issued by his office that the plan relies on a tax increase while raiding teachers’ retirement accounts to the tune of $670 million.
Fink feels the budget drastically reduces school safety funding and ignores local roads.
He blasted Democrats for supporting the budget saying they were, “out of touch with the real needs of the people of Michigan.”
According to Fink, the new budget cuts school safety and mental health grant funding by more than $300 million, leaving just $26.5 million to help schools fund resource officers, mental health services, and other programs.
Fink said he was disappointed to see the plan included neither signing and retention incentives, nor retirement improvements for corrections officers.
The new state budget for the fiscal year that begins October 1 was passed on party line votes.
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