Today,
@GovWhitmer
signed into law a budget that raids the teacher pension fund and provides ZERO per pupil funding increase for the first time in over a decade. Disgraceful.
❌Increased income taxes on MI workers.
❌Mandated a California-style “Green New Deal” that will send rates soaring.
❌Pushing an additional $1.5 billion tax on workers, small biz, and non-profits.
Not exactly the relief struggling Michigan families asked for.
Our resolution calls on her to resign, because a member of Congress using language that calls for the eradication of the Jewish state renders them unfit to serve.
It’s not politics. It’s a clear choice between right and wrong. If that “divides Democrats,” I got nothing for you.
Yesterday, the Republican minority leader of the Michigan State Senate introduced a resolution along with the entire Republican caucus calling for Congresswoman Tlaib to be expelled from the US House of Representatives (an entirely different level of government than the one we
It’s 5:00am and the Democrat majority just passed a budget that:
- Denied an increase of per pupil funding in classrooms
- Cut mental health and school security funding by $300 million
- Raided $670 million from the teacher pension fund
An irresponsible budget built on the
Reminder: Senate Republicans have introduced bills to end so-called "sanctuary" cities and counties in Michigan that refuse to enforce immigration laws.
Lansing Democrats have not allowed a vote on the bills.
Unfortunately,
@GovWhitmer
is the embodiment of Ronald Reagan’s warning - I’m from the government and I’m here to help. Her solution to every problem seems to be more and bigger government. It hasn’t worked in California or DC and it’s not working here.
“Repeal of (Right to Work) will likely pass this week...Democrats are casting this as a blow for worker freedom. But forcing employees to join a union & have dues deducted from their paychecks against their will does not meet any definition of freedom.”
Last night, Lansing Democrats shoved through their “Green New Deal” that will effectively ban natural gas, make your utility bills more expensive, and put the reliability of our electric grid at risk.
Another blow to struggling Michigan families and small businesses.
Republican Michigan senators said the financial costs of the new clean energy requirements would be too high.
Democratic lawmakers countered that the costs of inaction would be dire.
.
@GovWhitmer
has signed the bloated state budget passed by the Democrat majority, built on an income tax increase and highlighted by handouts to big business, big labor, and liberal pet projects. All at the expense of struggling Michigan working families.
The budget being pushed by
@GovWhitmer
and the Democrat majority is irresponsibly built on an income tax increase, a 1,200% trash tax increase, and raiding the teacher pension fund. Without those, it would be in the red.
Michigan taxpayers deserve better.
When you base your energy policy on far-left talking points, the impact on real people will be devastating. Lansing Democrats’ “green new deal” is a bad deal for Michigan families, farmers, and small businesses.
"Oh great, we're going to put up 260,000 acres of solar panels on farmland!? That's BRILLIANT!"
U.P. dairy farmer
@SenEdMcBroom
was having none of Lansing Democrats' Green New Deal scheme that would require grazing farms all over Michigan. 👇🔥
Same old story with
@GovWhitmer
. More debt, higher costs for taxpayers, and proposed tax increases.
Not mentioned by the article are two other disastrous decisions by Whitmer that put us in this position:
❌ Rejecting GOP ideas to significantly invest in our roads/bridges using
They misled the people of Michigan and their elected officials. Plain and simple. Whether on purpose or through incompetence is irrelevant. Claw back these subsidies & deny this corporate handout to a company aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.
Michigan taxpayers should not be paying to incentivize the Biden border crisis. Instead of the Democrats’ proposal to give illegals immigrants driver’s licenses or legal assistance, we should be banning sanctuary cities and helping secure the border.
If there's one state Michigan shouldn't model our energy policy on, it's California. Yet that's exactly what Lansing Democrats are trying to do.
Here's what you can expect if they pass their California-style Green New Deal. 👇
Repealing Right to Work action will effectively put a ‘closed for business’ sign on the state by drying up economic development opportunities, driving out businesses, weakening our communities, and endangering the stability of Michigan families.
Michigan ranks 49th nationally for population growth under your leadership, as other states are poaching more and more of our residents. But yeah, that’s hilarious.
My heart breaks for this tragic loss of life. How many more victims of our country’s open border crisis is it going to take for real action to happen? Our communities and families deserve better.
It’s now up to the states to deal with the failures of Biden’s border czar, Kamala Harris. Unfortunately, the Democrat majority in Lansing refuse to even hold a hearing on our bills that would help fight this problem.
Rep. Pauline Wendzel nails it.
Whether it’s banning natural gas, ignoring predictions of an unreliable grid, or raising energy costs for Michigan families,
@GovWhitmer
’s “Green New Deal” will be devastating for our state.
Under this proposal:
❌State bureaucrats will force solar/wind farms on local communities.
❌ Natural gas will be banned.
❌ Monopoly utilities can jack up your rates to cover the costs of these “green new deal” mandates.
Michigan families took a hit last night.
Michigan House passes climate change reform, mandating clean energy by 2040 and allowing state to decide solar/wind farm locations via
@BridgeMichigan
@Kelly_M_House
State government is sitting on $9 billion of YOUR money, and Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to keep every penny of it from you. Republicans will fight just as hard to put your money back in your pocket.
Inbox: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office has ruled that decreases in the state income tax due to revenue increases under a 2015 law are temporary, not permanent.
You literally schemed to raise the income tax by $700 million from last year.
You then raided $670 million from the teacher pension fund.
Your budget was about $1.4 billion in the red if you didn’t raise taxes and refuse to make long-term debt payments.
We're setting Michigan up for success and making record investments that will benefit everyone across the state, all without raising taxes by a penny!
That's right, another balanced, bipartisan budget in the books that will make a real difference in people's lives. Here's how 👇
No job growth expected through 2030. Our population is shrinking. Other states are running circles around Gov. Whitmer and Lansing Democrats, and Michiganders are paying the price.
We already lived through the Great Recession - the last thing we need is a Great ReGretchen.
Congrats to
@SenStabenow
, who collects a $78,000 per year pension from the state while also making $174,000 per year as a U.S. Senator. Thanks to
@MISenDems
, she's one step closer to paying ZERO state income tax. 1/2
Lansing Democrats have spent much of the past year watering down standards for students, teachers, and schools.
How's it working out? Well, the superintendent of Michigan's largest school district admits 6 out of every 10 students are chronically absent. 🤦♀️
“The unions want captive members they can dun for dues that can go to political causes they favor. Repaying unions is the priority for these officials, and harm to the economy is barely worth a chuckle.”
Just another scheme from
@GovWhitmer
to raise taxes on working families, while her and legislative Democrats dole out your tax dollars to multinational corporations.
Whether it's the 'Death to America' rally held weeks ago or these most recent events in Ann Arbor, it is a dereliction of duty for our Governor to remain silent in the face of such hateful, dangerous rhetoric.
Whatever happened to "Hate has no place here?"
The Line 5 project is critical for our environment and the energy needs of Michigan families. Today, my colleagues and I called on the Biden administration, Governor Whitmer, & Attorney General Nessel to stop dragging their feet, get out of the way, and let this tunnel be built.
The story is always the same. These “green new deals” based on far-left talking points and presidential ambitions are costly, destructive, and unworkable.
If
@GovWhitmer
and Democrats do this in Michigan, they’ll have no one but themselves to blame for the disastrous effects.
The Democrat majority first tried to ignore Biden’s open border chaos.
When that failed, they accused Republicans and law enforcement of politicizing the dangerous crime it created.
Now, Democrat leaders say “sanctuary cities aren’t even a thing.”
MI families deserve better.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard warned they are seeing more high-end home invasions in the county that they believe are from South American crime rings.
The Democrat majority in the MI Senate just voted to give more of your taxpayer dollars to corporations.
Decades of evidence show these handouts do not work.
Not sure how many layers of lipstick are on this pig, but it’s still a pig & it’s time we put it out to pasture.
Over 150k individuals in Michigan made the free choice to leave their union since 2013. Having the government force those same workers back into the unions they freely decided to leave is the antithesis of freedom. It’s un-American.
Congresswoman Tlaib is not fit to serve within the dignified office she holds, and Michigan’s leaders should unite their voices in calling for her resignation. This is not a partisan issue, but an issue of common moral decency.
A GOP-passed law was triggered earlier this year giving all MI workers a permanent income tax cut.
Gov. Whitmer, AG Nessel, & Democrats are fighting like hell to raise it next year.
Pretty simple. We believe it’s your money, and you should keep more of it. They don’t.
To the struggling Michigan families who saw their income taxes increased, their kids’ education standards reduced, and their grocery bills kept high…
We did it. We won a Webby! 🤦♂️
One year ago, Gov. Whitmer and Democrats blocked a gas tax pause, with prices at $4/gallon & inflation at the highest point in 40 years.
Now, she wants to raid the school aid fund to create a special carve out, while increasing the income tax next year.
Let's be clear about what this means. If
@GovWhitmer
follows through on this coordinated scheme to kill permanent tax relief, every Michigander will be hit with a tax hike at the same time many economists are expecting a recession.
State government is sitting on $9 billion of YOUR money, and Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to keep every penny of it from you. Republicans will fight just as hard to put your money back in your pocket.
Last year, Governor Whitmer and the Democrat majority spent the whole year making it more expensive to raise a family and do business in Michigan. Unfortunately, her State of the State address yesterday appeared to double-down on those efforts.
Had
@GovWhitmer
worked w/ the
#MILeg
instead of going it alone, there would be no sudden urgency on unemployment benefits or other measures. She even VETOED a bill we passed to extend benefits and continue other measures to combat the effects of
#COVID19
!
A budget built on higher income taxes and raiding the teacher pension fund.
Cutting mental health and school safety funding by $300 million dollars.
And no increase in per pupil funding for students.
No one should be proud of this abomination.
Schools, families, and working Michiganders are all shocked by this budget.
Because
@GovWhitmer
built it upon raising your taxes and refusing to increase per pupil funding for our students. All while families are still paying sky high prices at the grocery store and gas pump.
“Superintendents were shocked when the budget…did not increase per-pupil funding, the first time without an increase since the 2020-21 school year, as the pandemic bore down on Michigan. They also said they were disappointed to see cuts to mental health funding…”
We started this year with a $9 billion surplus. Governor Whitmer's current budget proposal would put us at a deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars. A bipartisan, fiscally responsible budget should be the way forward. Not a partisan spending spree.
They couldn’t move fast enough to put up the “Closed for Business” sign on our state. The fact that they did it by abolishing worker freedom and carving out special perks for their campaign backers at the expense of Michigan taxpayers makes it even worse.
Legislative Republicans fought and won to deliver a permanent cut to your income taxes this year. Unfortunately,
@govwhitmer
and AG Nessel are fighting like hell to raise them in 2024.
Editorial: Whitmer tax rebate a hike in disguise
Gov. Whitmer and legislative Democrats have been fighting like hell to raise your taxes next year. It's time they put Michigan's struggling families first, not union bosses and big corporations.
This isn’t a potential problem somewhere on the horizon. This is happening now in major cities across the country.
Michigan needs to send a message that we’re going to enforce the law, protect our communities, and keep our families safe.
Illegal immigrants are overwhelming sanctuary cities like Chicago, New York, and Denver.
Sens. Jonathan Lindsey and
@MicheleHoitenga
have introduced bills requiring Michigan communities to enforce immigration laws.
Democrats refuse to allow a vote.
To combat the effects of Biden’s open border crisis, Senate Republicans want to eliminate sanctuary cities & crackdown on those who smuggle fentanyl into our communities.
@GovWhitmer
’s proposal?
Ask MI residents to house the wave of migrants illegally crossing our borders.
Without Lansing Democrats’ income tax increase,
@GovWhitmer
’s budget proposal would be at a deficit. Instead of going on another spending spree, why not propose a budget that isn’t dependent on taking more from hardworking Michigan families?
“If allowed to stand it will allow Democratic lawmakers and the governor to raise taxes on Michigan residents without facing the accountability of taking a vote to do so. And that is Nessel's intent.”
After blowing through a $9 billion budget surplus in a matter of months,
@GovWhitmer
and Lansing Democrats are now having to bilk $700 million from taxpayers to keep growing the size of government.
NEW: Michigan Court of Appeals upholds Nessel, Whitmer admin determination that last year's income tax cut (triggered by high tax revenues) was only temporary.
This vile rhetoric should be denounced by everyone in a position of authority – especially our President,
@govwhitmer
, and Democrat legislators who continue to make excuses for Hamas’ violence, like
@darrincamilleri
. We must stand unified against this abhorrent behavior.
A few months ago, President Biden & Gov. Whitmer indignantly condemned a WSJ op/ed calling Dearborn, MI, "America's Jihad Capital."
A few days ago, participants in a pro-Jihad rally in Dearborn chanted "death to America" in Arabic.
Have we heard anything from Biden or Whitmer?
You can't make this stuff up.
We gave Democrats a chance to protect Michiganders from the fentanyl streaming across Joe Biden's open border.
They voted to protect butterflies instead.
🚨HAPPENING NOW 🚨
Lansing Democrats are opposing our call to vote on bills to tackle the fentanyl crisis and end so-called sanctuary cities.
Instead of voting on these bills to protect Michiganders, they're voting on a bill to protect...butterflies. 🦋
University of Michigan students set up tent encampment, demand divestment from Israel
The encampment copied a similar encampment last week on lawns at Columbia University in New York City that led to police arresting more than 100 students
“There are indications that 1 in 5 full-service restaurants will shut down. Everyone else will do a combination of shrinking their total employment and trying to find a way to change their business model.”
Unfortunately,
@GovWhitmer
& Lansing Democrats went the opposite direction, raising income taxes for 2024, while also proposing an additional $1.5 billion tax increase on workers, small businesses, & non-profits.
No need to wonder why the Uhaul business is booming in MI...
Today,
@GovWhitmer
& Lansing Democrats doubled down on forcing costly energy mandates on Michigan families, farmers, and small businesses, while also effectively banning natural gas and giving unelected bureaucrats the power to force solar and wind farms on local communities. 1/2
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is about to sign a major overhaul of state energy policies into law in Detroit.
The changes include a 100% clean energy standard for utilities to hit by 2040.
Call me old fashioned, but maybe we should focus more on kids learning to read and promoting education accountability, rather than expanding the bloated bureaucracy.
NEWS: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is preparing to create a new state department focused on promoting preschool access and higher education in Michigan, according to four sources with knowledge of the plan but who weren't authorized to speak publicly on it.
This has been an incredibly challenging year. Thank you to Dr. Dommer from Bronson Healthcare System for joining me to talk about the importance of steps we can take to minimize the virus from spreading. Let's help our hospitals, nurses and doctors protect our most vulnerable!
In Michigan, our Governor still hasn’t condemned the gross “Death to America” rally held in her state. She does, however, find the time to do things like whatever the heck this is.
Professor Potato and I are teaming up to share some news that will revolutionize higher education in Michigan.
This isn't just small potatoes, it's a game-changer!
I strongly condemn the hateful, threatening rhetoric coming out of protests at the University of Michigan. Jewish students fearing for their safety need to hear the same from their Governor.
Silence is complicity.
While Democrats refuse to negotiate on a bipartisan budget, Gov. Whitmer is overseas doling out MI tax dollars to the French. I’d rather we spend your money on fixing crumbling bridges or local roads, but that’s just me 🤷🏼♂️
700,000 families would have received this relief months ago, but
@govwhitmer
and Lansing Democrats buried it in a tax bill to increase income taxes and dole out more $$$ handouts to multinational corporations. Just more smoke and mirrors from this partisan Governor.
This week, the Democrat majority in the Senate rejected this mailer I planned to send to 22,041 seniors in my district.
Why? Because I used the term "illegal immigrants." Seriously.
Sorry, Democrats - censorship won't make the border crisis go away.
School officials aren’t buying the shell game the Democrat majority in Lansing rammed through in this year’s budget.
Big cuts to mental health and school safety, as well as a ZERO percent per pupil increase.
Sorry, but that’s true, Gretch.
Every single Democrat in the MI Senate just voted down my amendment
to join more than a dozen states to fund sending our National Guard to help Texas defend our open border.
The Biden administration is asleep at the wheel, and the Democrats keep hitting the snooze button.
First budget bill, SB 762, the Department of Military & Veterans Affairs budget is now underway.
First proposed amendment of the day is from
@SenAricNesbitt
requesting $8M for deploying the National Guard to the southern border.
#mileg
Instead,
@GovWhitmer
and Lansing Democrats schemed to increase your income taxes this year. They’re also trying to implement a $1.5 billion tax increase on workers, small businesses, and non-profits.
All while
#Bidenomics
continues to fail struggling families across Michigan.
.
@GovWhitmer
's Department of Corrections has failed officers & their families. Dangerous understaffing at 13 facilities. Staff drug smuggling. Director Washington needs to be held accountable.
Since COVID arrived restaurants have adopted protocols and invested to make their businesses safe. Yet the owners and employees of Michigan restaurants will now spend their holidays out of work and uncertain about their futures. They deserve much better from
@GovWhitmer
.
Senate Republicans in Michigan introduced legislation to combat both of these issues due to the Biden/Harris administration’s massive failures.
The Democrat majority in Lansing has refused to even hold a hearing.
Kamala Harris calls me and Donald Trump disloyal to America. Call me crazy, but I think it's disloyal to let in 20 million illegal aliens and poison our citizens with fentanyl.
Another alarming report of gross mismanagement of taxpayer dollars by this administration.
@GovWhitmer
and her appointed officials continue to downplay these serious findings, claiming they’ve fixed the problems that came with the pandemic. This audit shows otherwise.
An audit of the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency's pandemic aid found likely inappropriate payments to:
-- 4,959 incarcerated people ($35.6M)
-- 3,002 deceased ($19.8M)
-- 5,913 ppl under 15 ($90.9M)
-- 1,269 ppl over 85 ($18.6M)
via
@detroitnews
An absolute travesty at the Olympics.
Angela Carini is forced to box against a biological male. She quits after just 45 seconds, and cries hysterically as her opponent is declared the winner.
Don't look away. This is wokeness.
Unfortunately, this was more of the same from
@GovWhitmer
this evening. Nothing we heard this evening was offered to grow our working age population. Just more gimmicks, buzzwords, and unfunded “pie in the sky” wishes.
No serious plan was offered tonight by the Governor.
The mealy-mouthed “both sides” statements being offered by
@govwhitmer
and others regarding the threats and hate being directed at our Jewish friends and neighbors is insulting. These calls for violence from radical ideologues must be strongly condemned, without equivocation.
I’m glad Mayor Adams is finally realizing what most Americans already know. Sanctuary cities restrict local and federal law enforcement from keeping our communities safe.
We need to ban sanctuary cities in Michigan, and I hope Lansing Democrats will join us in this effort.
BREAKING: A stunning turnaround from NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who is now calling for NYC’s sanctuary city law to be changed so that some illegal immigrants who commit felonies can be turned over to ICE for deportation.
This misguided ruling from the Supreme Court will make everything more expensive for struggling Michigan families, while also having a devastating effect on the jobs of tipped workers. The Legislature needs to act NOW to prevent catastrophic damage to the livelihoods of the
A big aspect of the ruling: the tipped credit, which lets restaurants pay a lower minimum to tipped employees as long as their tips make up the difference, will be eliminated in 2029. Major impact for restaurants, servers, bartenders, etc.
How do we attract and keep people, particularly young people, in Michigan?
In addition to investing heavily in public transit and amplifying that we are a reproduction freedom state, we must continue to DIVERSIFY OUR ECONOMY, as young people just aren’t that interested in
Attempts to ban books are about more than words on paper – they’re attacking education, libraries, and your right to be who you are. Books connect readers with communities, expose you to new worlds and ideas, and can even help you learn about yourself 📖
As was pointed out in the
@detroitnews
today, people are fleeing Michigan to states that are doing the opposite of what
@GovWhitmer
and the Democrat majority have done.
Unfortunately, a return to the Granholm “lost decade” is inevitable under these regressive policies.
This afternoon, I sent a letter to President Ono and the U-M Board of Regents urging them to take action to ensure the safety of Jewish students & faculty on campus. The calls for violence by radical demonstrators this past week has no place at an institution of higher learning.
Biden's border crisis has caused chaos along our southern border and has threatened the safety of our communities. The bills introduced by Michigan Senate Republicans to end sanctuary cities and crack down on fentanyl need to be taken up now, before it's too late.
Once again, the market has spoken and the ruse of government picking winners and losers failed to pan out. These taxpayer handouts to multinational corporations overpromise and underachieve time after time. And it's the taxpayers that always take the hit. 🧵 1/3
Gov. Whitmer tried to find a way to deny you a permanent income tax cut. She came up with some convoluted financial shell game, and disguised it with a one-time $180 rebate check, that penalized married couples.
No one fell for it. And Republicans held strong.
The time for Director Gordon to resign is way past due, and
@govwhitmer
should replace him with an independent leader who will bring much-needed organization and a spirit of partnership to this administration.
Raiding the teachers pension fund to pay for
@GovWhitmer
’s pet projects is par for the course for this fiscally irresponsible Democrat majority.
No debate. No discussion. And we stick our kids with the bill.