There are only four days left until a government shutdown. So far, we've only passed five budgets out of 15 on the House floor. A few more have made it out of committee.
We are making progress though. We have a bipartisan agreement between the House and Senate to balance the budget
without raising taxes and everything seems to be on track.
Unfortunately, the governor has not yet said whether she will veto the bill. There are also a lot of indications that Granholm is working behind the scenes to kill the bipartisan agreement.
We need to take the prudent step of passing an emergency budget to protect essential services just in case the budget doesn't get done on time. We do not need to shut down the government. Shutting down the government is reckless and irresponsible.
Senate Republicans have already approved an emergency budget, but it wasn't supported by a single Democrat.
The House isn't scheduled to meet again until Sunday.
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