LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – As the state Senate holds a business session on Tuesday, the big question of what happens in six weeks looms over Lansing.
An approved spending plan needs to be in place by the end of the Fiscal Year on September 30th, or state government shuts down. To Roger Victory, times have changed since the last such budget showdown of a decade ago, and the first term Republican from Hudsonville is confident that operations won’t ground to a halt on October 1st.
“The dollars are there today to fund government for the next year,” Victory said during his monthly appearance on “WHTC Talk of the Town” on Monday. “The question is, how will the infrastructure and road improvements (be funded), and I do believe that, as we go to work (on Tuesday), there will be a resolution to that.”
Victory has been with Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey in talks with the Whitmer Administration on resolving the road funding impasse that has been seen as the biggest impediment to a budget deal in Lansing. Shirkey said last week that an agreement on that could be coming before the end of this month.
