Gretchen Whitmer used school children, critical services, and initiatives she claimed to support as pawns in her failed effort to pass a gas tax increase.
December 12, 2019
FACT CHECK: Gretchen Whitmer’s Big Tax Lie
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed nearly a billion dollars from the state budget and diverted another $600 million because the legislature failed to pass her 45-cent gas tax increase proposal.
CLAIM: Now, several months later in an interview with Fox 2 Detroit, Whitmer admits the gas tax increase idea was a failure but made this claim about her gas tax increase proposal: “I did what I said I was going to do.”
FACT CHECK: While it’s true Gov. Whitmer stated she wanted to “Fix the Damn Roads,” she scoffed at the notion she was proposing a gas tax increase during the 2018 election. Whitmer stated: “That’s ridiculous and you know it” when her opponent said she would be proposing a 20-cent gas tax increase to fund her promises.
Gov. Whitmer used school children, critical services, and initiatives she claimed to support as pawns in her failed effort to pass a gas tax increase. The next budget process starts in less than two months and we still can’t count on Gov. Whitmer to keep her word or tell Michiganders the truth. – Tori Sachs, Executive Director of Michigan Rising Action