Whitmer approved the largest road funding package in Michigan history, building or repairing over 24,000 lane miles of roads and 1,900 bridges.
She expanded Michigan’s Earned Income Tax Credit from 6% to 30% of the federal credit, providing larger refunds to hundreds of thousands of lower-income workers.
She made breakfast and lunch free for all public school students, expanded pre-K, increased access to free preschool for 4-year-olds, and expanded free community college.
She expanded collective bargaining rights for unions.
She repealed Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban and signed legislation expanding reproductive health protections.
She expanded the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
She signed universal background checks, safe storage requirements, a red flag law, and expanded restrictions on firearms at polling locations.
She passed one of the nation’s more ambitious state clean-energy packages requiring utilities to reach 100% clean electricity by 2040.
She codified Affordable Care Act protections into Michigan law, including protections for preexisting conditions), ended surprise medical billing, expanded mental health coverage requirements, and erased millions of dollars in medical debt.
I REALLY want him to run so he and the republican party get absolutely humiliated on multiple levels. From legally to being obliterated at the polls.
Worried after the last election? The economy is peoples #1 issue. He’s made things so much worse and still has 2 1/2 yrs left.
Trump: "I am pleased to announce my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States. I will be doing that. I won three times, now I'm going to do it again.”
@MaxVelocityWX When I read this yesterday my first thought was NWA. Then I saw the picture you posted today and laughed. First time I visited my parents in NWA we were driving down a road and I thought I was hallucinating because there were two Walmarts across the street from each other…
NYT: Three military officials said that one reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April.
The CDC’s “Autism and Vaccines” page now says the claim “vaccines do not cause autism” “is not an evidence-based claim” because studies “have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
Meanwhile, measles cases have hit a 34-year high, outbreaks of the explosive diarrhea-causing parasite Cyclospora have spread across the country, and the CDC doesn’t exactly seem to have things under control.
I’m starting to think appointing an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist crackpot to lead public health was a catastrophic mistake…
Daniel Siad, a French modeling recruiter who spent more than a decade arranging for multiple models to meet Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead at his home near Paris on Monday—CNN
JUST IN: U.S. strategic oil reserves just hit their lowest level in 43 years.
Meanwhile, the national average price for regular gas hit $4 a gallon again as the Iran war continues to escalate.
It’s so shameful that those service members lost their lives because of the utter incompetence of Trump.
But don’t forget that Iran keeps calling and begging for a deal.