Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass what she ...

President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," now coined the "mega bill," has now passed both the Senate GOP and the House ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was among the Michigan Democrats who criticized the Senate's passage of Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill ...

Finally, it feels like, for the first time in my memory, there’s momentum around finding funding source for fixing the damn ...

House Republicans want their plan to increase road funding to be tied to K-12 budget decisions for the 2025-26 school year. House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, said the two pieces of ...

Whitmer also proposes $1.2 billion for roads, bridges and transit that would come from taxes Michigan drivers pay at the gas ...

The Senate Committee on Appropriations in Lansing, MI, on April 16, 2025. By pulling $1.05 billion from "every cent" of state gas taxes and $2.2 billion from corporate income taxes, House ...

LANSING, MI — Marijuana is lucrative and state government has taken notice. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed a 32% tax on wholesale marijuana transactions to generate nearly $470 million ...

Whitmer had wanted to hike the solid waste surcharge from 36 cents per ton to $5 per ton. Sen. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor, the sponsor of the Senate's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer may as well have already declared herself as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. In a much-ballyhooed speech last month in Washington, DC ...

A new bill introduced in the Michigan Senate could eliminate property taxes for all residents aged 70 and older, in a move that the legislation's sponsor says will prevent retirees from losing ...