Michigan Senate

Last week, the governor and legislative leadership on both sides of the aisle announced the framework for a budget plan that included around $2 billion for road funding

The House and Senate appropriations chairs just reached deals Friday on spending targets for different parts of the budget

One concern from schools as they've been waiting on a budget has been the part of the roads proposal that would remove the sales tax collected on gas to make room for higher fuel taxes

There is now less than a week for the Legislature and Governor Gretchen Whitmer to finalize a bipartisan budget deal before the deadline that would trigger a partial state government shutdown

A budget shutdown would require the Whitmer administration to prioritize the most urgent services and employees deemed essential, versus others who could be idled

There’s only a week left for candidates to file in a special election that could shift the balance of power in the Michigan senate

Michigan is a little more than a week away from the deadline to adopt a budget and there are no signs a bipartisan deal in the Legislature is any closer to averting a partial state government shutdown on October first

A budget office spokesperson said the Whitmer administration still hopes to get a bipartisan budget deal through the Legislature before the deadline

Michigan House Republicans are standing by their starting block in state budget talks as the governor pushes the Republican House and Democratic Senate to compromise

State government is two weeks away from a partial shutdown in the absence of a budget deal that includes the Democratic governor, a Republican-controlled House and a Senate led by Democrats