"A storm of skyrocketing unemployment paired with plummeting tax revenue have plunged the state budget into a multi-billion dollar deficit. State Budget Office Communications Director Kurt Weiss told The Center Square in an email that tax revenues for this fiscal year are projected to drop between $1 billion and $3 billion."
Michigan House Republicans on Monday unveiled a three-step plan to return Michiganders to work. House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R- Levering, said in a statement that “the current one-size-fits-all approach” isn’t working for thousands of families worried about paying bills.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Stamas on Monday called for laying off non-essential state employees because of state budget concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Michigan Department of Treasury estimates the impact on the 2020 state budget to be between $1 billion and $3 billion.
An attorney from Saginaw County filed a lawsuit that claims Gov. Gretchen Whitmer unlawfully issued an executive order that delayed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) deadlines.
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