Article courtesy of MIRS for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog newsletter
If Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is serious about tackling literacy in the new year, so is House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township).
Entering his second year as the House’s leader, Hall is moving economic development to the back burner after the topic “lost momentum” in late 2025. He said the Senate “dropped the ball” on the issue so now he’ll have his members work on it “in the background” with the goal of hammering out an agreement by year’s end.
This will not be music to the ears of the business community, who had hoped to see an expanded brownfield development program or an income tax capture scheme make it to the Governor by the end of 2025. The programs differ from the “corporate welfare and picking winners and losers” that House conservatives and progressives are opposing.
But after the House Republicans’ work project denials agitated Senate Democrats, the numerous differences in how each side would approach either a brownfield or tax capture plan became too high a hill to climb.
Now, Hall said in a Zoom interview with MIRS that he’s looking forward to working with Whitmer on literacy, health care affordability and property tax relief.
“We will work with the Governor on solving these problems,” Hall said.
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