Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed budget targets environmental measures, mental health, a tax on vapes and more.

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's $83.5 billion budget plan, her seventh, features a number of proposals related to businesses, jobs and the economy. The 2025-26 fiscal year blueprint, along with $510 million in suggested supplemental spending for the current 2024-25 budget, will be considered by lawmakers in coming months.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s administration rolled out its 83-point-five billion dollar proposed budget Wednesday for the coming fiscal year.

In the kickoff to the Fiscal Year 2026 budget season, State Budget Director Jen Flood outlined Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposal, presenting on Wednesday a slimmed-down School Aid budget to members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

Beyond a historic 4.1% hike in per-student funding and a bid to intensify academic transparency, the list of recommendations would largely uphold existing priorities and programs for 1.4 million public school students.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office handed legislators her proposed budget Wednesday, laying out how it thinks the state should spend $83.5 billion in the next fiscal year. (Feb. 5, 2025)