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State representative warns late budget deal cuts local revenue, shifts school aid to roads
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Michigan state Rep. Dylan Wegela told the Garden City City Council that the Legislature’s late budget deal reduced constitutional revenue sharing, shifted hundreds of millions from the School Aid Fund to higher education and roads, and included provisions he said he could not support; he voted against the package.
State Rep. Dylan Wegela, D-Mich., told the Garden City City Council on Oct. 6 that the Michigan Legislature passed two linked budgets only days before the Oct. 1 deadline and that he voted against the final deal because of how it reallocates revenue and was rushed through the process.
Wegela said the legislature avoided a government shutdown by passing short-term funding and then approving the full budgets after a late-night session. “We were forced to vote on this essentially blind,” he said, adding that lawmakers received a 240-page summary with only a few hours to review and a full thousand‑page document with about 30 minutes for line‑by‑line review.
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