‘Fix the damn roads’ Whitmer agrees to only half of Republicans’ $3.4 billion plan for roads

‘Fix the damn roads’ Whitmer agrees to only half of Republicans’ $3.4 billion plan for roads

House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland, said Thursday that he had to compromise on road funding to avoid a government shutdown threatened by Democrats. Hall pushed for $3.4 billion to repair Michigan’s roads, but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic leaders agreed to only half that amount in the state budget deal. “We’re putting $1.5 billion into our local roads, and that goes up to over $1.8 billion over the next five years,” Hall said at a press …