Governor Rick Snyder has signed the new $54 billion dollar state budget. It has money for roads, schools, prisons, and healthcare.
But a solution on funding road repairs remains elusive. Governor Snyder (R) says voters sent a message when they rejected Proposal One last month, and that was for the state to come up with the money to fix roads. The new budget has some stop-gap funding, but falls far short of the $1.2 billion dollars in new revenue that he’s called for.
“You’ve got to step up and just say you gotta keep working to solve the problem until we get a good long-term solution and this was a good interim step,”
he says. The governor says he’ll watch what happens in the Legislature over the summer in hopes of wrapping up a plan in the fall. Many Republicans do not agree that new taxes or fees are needed.
