LANSING, Mich. (via WOOD TV) — The budget process continues in Lansing at a slower pace than normal.
One of the sticking points is a 45-cent per gallon gas tax increase asked for by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The measure hasn't been introduced in the House or Senate. In fact, a Senate subcommittee passed a transportation budget that does not include that money.
"This is part of the beginning of the process, but as the chair indicated too, we cannot pass the budget without the dollars there,” said Roger Victory, a Republican senator from Ottawa County and vice chair of the appropriations subcommittee that deals with transportation.
He says they didn't include the gas tax increase in their budget because no such tax exists, at least not now.
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