LANSING Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed at least $2.4 billion in COVID-19 relief spending Tuesday while vetoing roughly $650 million after Michigan Republicans did not negotiate with her and tied other aid to legislation that would have curbed her administration s authority to order pandemic restrictions.
It s the latest move in a long-running dispute between the GOP-led Legislature and the Democratic governor over her pandemic response.
As expected, Whitmer vetoed a bill that would have ceded the state health department s power to close schools and prohibit sports to local health departments, allowing them to act only if certain metrics were met.
Republicans had linked about $840 million in federal K-12 funding to the measure. The fate of that wasn t immediately clear because the governor s office and the attorney general were conducting a legal review. Whitmer vetoed $87 million in proposed federal funding for private schools and $10 million in federal dollars for parents whose c
Whitmer signs $2 4B in virus relief, vetoes other aid
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