Budget negotiations are taking place between Michigan legislative leaders and Governor Gretchen Whitmer, but state Representative Joey Andrews tells us he heard they’re not going well.

The Republican-controlled state House approved a budget on a party line vote late last month, while the Democrat-controlled Senate previously approved its own plan. Andrews calls the Republican budget “kind of a disaster,” telling us it makes cuts to just about every state department. That includes a 50% cut to the Office of Labor and Economic Opportunity.

“E liminating programs like Going Pro that help retrain people into like skilled trades workforce, or for like good blue collar jobs, the JMG program that helps at-risk kids get into the workforce, all programs that got cut to zero,” Andrews said. “Ther

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