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Whitmer signs bulk of coronavirus aid package, but vetoes limits on executive authority
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law most of the Legislature-approved funding for various COVID-19 response and relief measures, but vetoed $652 million in spending and a tie-barred policy bill limiting the administration’s authority to issue pandemic-related orders.
The spending plan, the bulk of which comes from federal funds appropriated to Michigan by Congress, includes funding for vaccines, testing, direct care worker payments and property tax relief, as well as money for addressing learning loss and returning schools to in-person learning.
“I think it’s great news that we’ve been able to get some of the federal funding available to us appropriated,” Whitmer said in a statement. “However, the reality is that there is more work to be done and there are still billions of dollars in federal funding that we need to get out the doo
Whitmer signs most of COVID recovery plan package, vetoes funding tied to limits on pandemic powers
Michigan Executive Office of the Governor
By: FOX 17
and last updated 2021-03-09 14:47:15-05
LANSING, Mich. â The debate over how to use federal dollars for COVID-19 relief will continue in Lansing after the governor signed most of the legislature s latest relief package into law.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed more than $2.5 billion in coronavirus relief spending on Tuesday. That includes a $2.25 per hour wage increase for all direct care workers through September, an increase from the $2 per hour increase previously in effect.
Other provisions include $283 million for rental assistance, $110 million for vaccine administration, and $555 million for testing and tracing.
LANSING MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The budget proposal that Governor Whitmer announced Thursday is a record-setting 67.1-billion-dollar plan, and has in it a p.