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Rising Voices Condemns Michigan House Republicans’ Reckless Budget Sabotage

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Rising Voices
Sep 5, 2025
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Updated: Apr 24


Rising Voice is outraged by Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall’s reckless handling of the state budget. After months of stalling, House Republicans dropped budget bills last month without advance notice or committee hearings. All 110 legislators had less than 60 minutes to read through 808 pages of the appropriation bill that will decide the fate of the FY 2026 fiscal budget, which is incredibly appalling and is not done in the best interest of all Michiganders. This is not governing; it is sabotage.


Adding insult to injury, after missing the constitutional deadline of July 1st to pass a state budget, Michigan Republicans chose to take a page out of President Trump’s playbook and make catastrophic cuts to essential services. In total, the Republicans‘ budget cuts over $5 billion dollars in funding for healthcare, food safety programs, educational programs, civil rights, and many more services that our Asian American community benefits from everyday. 


During this time, our state government should be working together to fill the gaps of the disastrous cuts made at the federal level. Many different organizations, including Michigan’s most well known hospital advocates, have sounded the alarm on the need for the state to step in and fill that gap. Rather than listen to the experts, Michigan Republicans passed a budget that lacked both critical funding and transparency, allowing no time for questions or suggestions from anybody, including our communities. This is a betrayal to all Michiganders and not how our lawmakers should be governing. Please call upon your state senators and urge them to correct these horrendous mistakes by the Michigan House Republicans and pass an equitable, balanced, and fair budget to benefit all Michiganders across the state. 


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Rising Voices, a project of the Center for Empowered Politics, is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization that seeks to increase the civic participation of Asian Americans in Michigan by developing the leadership, organizing, and power-building capacity of Asian American women, youth, and communities. 

 
 
 

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ReeceBurton
Nov 02

The detail about legislators getting less than an hour to read 808 pages is what really got me, because that's not a mistake, it's a tactic. I've seen similar rushed votes at the local level and the lack of hearing time always ends up hurting the same communities that rely most on the programs being cut. It makes me think about how much transparency actually matters in governance, which is something I've been mulling over while reading https://luotettavakasinot.net lately and comparing how different places handle accountability. Calling senators seems like the most immediate step here.

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