st and Governor Whitmer has still not signed it?
What is interesting is just last Sunday Whitmer complained, on national television, that President Trump had not signed the $2.3 trillion dollar omnibus bill that contained approximately $900 billion dollars of Covid-19 relief. Last Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union show Whitmer stated:
“The president needs to sign it and if he really believes we should get up to $2,000, which I have believed for a long time, he should get back to Washington D.C. and get that piece done as well”
Sounds like a whole lot of hypocritical to me, wonder why the CNN host did not ask her about Michigan’s Covid-19 relief bill sitting on her desk? Michigan’s bill has been on Whitmer’s desk since December 22
Republicans say Whitmer veto puts extension of jobless benefits at risk Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press
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Republican legislative leaders say Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made a colossal error when she stripped millions of dollars in unemployment funding from a COVID-19 relief bill before signing it into law Tuesday.
The governor said the money she removed from the bill would have amounted to a tax break for big businesses related to unemployment benefits and won t affect the availability of jobless benefits. The measure still includes more than $60 million for business grants and $45 million for direct payments to workers.
Gov. Whitmer says she’ll sign Michigan COVID-19 relief bill ‘in very near future’
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
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LANSING, MI - The first week of December, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer requested $400 million from the state legislature to fight COVID-19.
One week ago on Dec. 21, the Michigan House and Senate approved a plan that surpassed that request, slating $465 million to cover unemployment benefits, small business loans, vaccine distribution and more.
After a week, Whitmer has yet to ink her signature on Senate Bill 748, which passed nearly unanimously in both Republican-controlled chambers.
Why the wait? Her office states the bill “was not fully negotiated” with the Whitmer administration prior to its approval in the Republican-led legislature.
Outgoing House Speaker had big wins on auto insurance and criminal justice, but pandemic was a stumbling block
Updated Dec 25, 2020;
Posted Dec 25, 2020
Speaker of the House Rep. Lee Chatfield pictured at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Neil Blake | MLive.com
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In his last speech on the House floor, Rep. Lee Chatfield frequently took an apologetic tone.
From the get-go, the 32-year-old former teacher from Northern Michigan said his goal while serving as the Speaker of the House was to find bipartisan consensus wherever possible in a divided government.
But although the Republican-led House and Senate saw some bipartisan wins this term, including an overhaul of the state’s no-fault auto insurance laws and a host of policy changes aimed at improving the criminal justice system, Chatfield and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, frequently sparred with Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her administration.
GOP attorneys could face sanctions over falsehoods pressed in Michigan election lawsuits
Michigan AG, Secretary of State seek to ban attorneys like Sidney Powell from state courtrooms
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DETROIT – The tables are turning on the legal teams backing President Trump, as calls and court filings began mounting this week for those attorneys to be banned from courtrooms or disbarred including calls from Michigan’s attorney general.
In the latest filing, the attorney for Wayne County, Robert Davis, called on the federal judge in Michigan’s Eastern District to sanction lawyers for six Michigan Trump supporters suing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in an attempt to overturn the election results. According to the motion, Davis said the attorneys violated conduct codes by repeating falsehoods in court, at one point calling the suit “a deliberate and mean-spirited effort to undermine the will of the more than 5.5 million people.”