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The Whitmer administration and Michigan House Republicans have agreed to put a legal fight over GOP-ordered budget cuts on hold because a settlement may be in sight. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is trying to convince the Legislature to make free school meals for all students a permanent program. She stopped by a middle school in Troy Wednesday to help make her case. Rick Pluta has more.

On Tuesday, the Michigan House approved a more than $150 million spending bill to work on runways at Michigan’s Selfridge Air National Guard base. Colin Jackson has more.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge will hear arguments today on disputed spending in the state budget that legislative Republicans want stopped. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge has set a Friday hearing on whether to block an official opinion that restored $645 million in grants for projects that were abruptly cut by a GOP-controlled state House committee. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued a formal opinion Wednesday that reverses budget cuts enacted last month by the GOP-led House Appropriations Committee. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan Legislature adjourned Thursday for the year, capping a session where a politically divided House and Senate often struggled to reach deals. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan Senate voted Tuesday evening to restore most of the funding that a House committee had canceled last week. As Colin Jackson explains, the Senate vote is the first step toward potentially undoing budget cuts by a House committee that bypassed the Senate and governor by using a rarely invoked section of state law.

Democrats in the Michigan Legislature are figuring out their next move following a sudden, unilateral action by the House Republican majority to cut $645 million out of the state budget. Rick Pluta has more.

Ann Arbor State Representative Jason Morgan says he’s furious the House GOP has eliminated $650 million in appropriations through a rarely used procedure. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert reports.