KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Officials from YWCA Kalamazoo, Disability Network of Southwest Michigan, Milestone Senior Services, and Cradle Kalamazoo will be speaking out on Monday against the state House’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
The nonprofit agencies in Kalamazoo say the funding cuts will have a large impact on services statewide.
Republicans in the state House say they found $5 billion in what House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland calls “waste, fraud, and abuse” in the current budget and removed it for 2026 when they passed their version of the budget.
The budget for the next fiscal year is nowhere near done. What the House passed would need to pass the Senate, and any changes would have to be agreed on by the House.
Democrats have a one-vote majority in the Michigan Senate. Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, House Speaker Hall, state budget director Jen Flood, and other lawmakers and state officials discussed the budget for an hour last week, with no deal being reached.
State government will shut down October 1 if a budget is not passed.
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