Michigan House Republicans slashed over half a billion dollars

in crucial funding for Michigan’s kids, families, small businesses, and communities. This was deliberately cruel, reckless, and lacking any ounce of transparency.

The $645 million the House Appropriations Committee decimated was originally passed with bipartisan support with the intent to provide resources to:

  • Uplift new moms and their babies at the most vulnerable stage of life;
  • Provide wigs to kids with cancer;
  • Tackle our state’s opioid epidemic;
  • Invest in affordable housing solutions;
  • Ensure our state’s Holocaust museum can continue offering education on a piece of world history we must never forget.

Rather than do their jobs to protect and uplift the people of Michigan, Lansing Republicans have instead elected to exploit a rarely used provision in state law to snatch critical resources away from Michigan kids and communities, yanking back real dollars that our constituents and people and organizations around the state were expecting to revamp community centers, purchase new fire trucks, and keep residents safe.

Their actions won’t simply create harmful consequences for folks across the state — they also undermine the integrity of our budget process and erode the trust of Michiganders in legislative institutions at an already divisive time.

Let’s be clear: Speaker Matt Hall and Lansing Republicans can play any childish games they want in their own spare time, but the lives of Michiganders are not on the table to be played with.

Senate Democrats will continue serving with REAL leadership,

doing everything we can to hold Lansing Republicans accountable and ensure every Michigander knows what they did.

In every year of our majority in the Michigan Senate, including during this new divided government, we have put in the work, collaborating with our community partners and colleagues across the aisle to deliver a balanced, bipartisan budget each year that truly delivers for Michiganders. Senate Democrats will continue serving with actual integrity and actual leadership.

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