LANSING, MI - As the Michigan Senate gaveled in just after midnight Friday morning, Sen. Sarah Anthony, D-Lansing, delivered a brief invocation: “Dear God, please help us pass this budget, amen.”

It wasn’t until a few hours later that Anthony, who oversees the budget process in the Senate as appropriations chair, had her prayer answered.

Well after 3 a.m., the state government finalized its budget for 2025-26. Both omnibus bills moved fairly quickly with bipartisan support through each chamber.

But a separate bill to create a new 24% wholesale tax on marijuana, one of several pieces of legislation necessary to create road funding revenue, was held up in the Senate.

House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, previously said the budget bills were contingent on that tax also being appr

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