LANSING, MI (WTVB) – State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey is confident a budget solution will be found in Lansing before an October 1, 2019 deadline, and says that there is no partial state government shutdown on the horizon.
He says the legislature will get what he calls a “fair, balanced and sensible” budget to the governor in plenty of time.
Shirkey says both chambers have offered Governor Gretchen Whitmer several packages that would get her to within 85 percent of the road funding she was requesting for less than 20 percent of the taxes.
Whitmer is scheduled to make stops in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo Monday.
Lawmakers and the governor have three weeks to reach a deal on a new budget or risk a state government shutdown.
