7/20/22 - State 75.5 Billion Dollar Budget Signed

The largest state budget in history surpasses last year's budget by 20 billion dollars.

While the state’s new 75.5 billion dollar budget includes money for bringing down debt and setting aside more for a rainy day, the budget did have several items cut out by the Governor’s veto pen. 

Some of those funds included money to pregnancy resource centers.  Governor Gretchen Whitmer justified her decision by saying: "Every cycle, no matter who's the governor, no matter who's in the legislature, that is a part of what happens in negotiation I don't think there were any surprises there."
Whitmer also vetoed two million dollars for an adoptive parent tax credit.  The Michigan Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the Catholic church in Lansing, accuses the Governor of “taking away choices from Michigan women.”

In total, some 27 million dollars was struck out of the budget for pro-life agencies, and adoption education. 

This year’s  budget is 20 billion dollars larger than last year’s, and includes money to shore up the state’s pension plan, reduces debt, and sets aside more money for the state’s rainy day fund. The state is still sitting on seven billion dollars, largely federal pandemic dollars.