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House leads way in eliminating 2,000 ghost employees — Speaker vows to defund remaining 3,000

In a Tuesday press conference, Speaker of the House Matt Hall, R-Richland, announced that Michigan lawmakers have made progress in eliminating so-called “ghost employees” from the state budget, but the work is far from over. Hall said that during the drafting of the 2026 fiscal year budget, Republican leadership identified and removed roughly 2,000 ghost employee positions. These state-funded positions exist on paper but are not held by any work…Richland, Michigan · Richland Read Article

‘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 …Government Shutdown · Richland Read Article

Matt Hall: Cost of 'phantom' state employees grows to 'almost a billion' dollars - The Midwesterner

House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland, is pushing for the elimination of what he calls “phantom ghost jobs” in state government. He warns that taxpayers are footing the bill for thousands of unfilled positions each year and the House budget plan ends that. “We just found some new information that it’s actually closer to a billion dollars in the phantom ghost jobs every year that these departments are squirreling away as they’re building this $6 bi…Richland, Michigan · Richland Read Article

Speaker Hall rejects Whitmer's tariff blame in failed Michigan chip plant deal - The Midwesterner

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland, pushed back strongly against claims that tariffs caused the collapse of the multibillion-dollar semiconductor plant proposal known as Project Grit. Instead, Hall pointed to complex negotiations and shifting federal priorities as the real reasons the deal fell apart. Project Grit was an ambitious plan led by SanDisk, a Western […]Tariffs · Richland Read Article