LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Will there be some political fireworks in Lansing on Thursday, and if so, just how much?
Both the state House and Senate will convene to decide whether to extend Governor Whitmer’s state of emergency declaration past the April 30th deadline, and for how long. The two chambers agreed to one extension already earlier this month, but majority Republicans reportedly came to regret such a move when the Governor tightened restrictions in extending the “Stay Home, Stay Safe” executive order. Some of those restrictions have been loosened in her latest EO extension last week.
As first-term Republican Representative Brad Slagh of Zeeland Township explains, the “Stay Home, Stay Safe” order is different from the Governor’s emergency powers. “We actually can have an emergency declaration without locking everybody down,” he said during an appearance on “WHTC Talk of the Town” earlier this week. “Those two pieces need to be worked on, but not everybody understands it that way, and that makes it difficult in a conversation with people about what’s happening.”
Governor Whitmer is asking for a 28-day extension of her emergency powers.
