LANSING, MI (MPRN) Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed two budget bills to fund the state’s COVID-19 response. But the bills also include line-item vetoes to the chagrin of Republicans and business groups.
The governor vetoed restrictions adopted by the GOP-led Legislature on how the money could be used. Budget Director Dave Massaron said those restrictions were never bargained in budget bills adopted by GOP majorities with no input from the Whitmer administration.
“There were some political games played with some of the funding that put restrictions on the ability to use that funding,” he said. “Legal review of those restrictions and the impact of those restrictions is ongoing.”