Senator Aric Nesbitt's Press Releases

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, made the following statement after state fiscal and economic leaders made their economic and state tax revenue projections during Friday’s annual May Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference: “Today’s report is another confirmation of expert warnings of a slowing economy. It is important that the Legislature put the struggling families of Michigan first as we continue work on

LANSING, Mich. — A group of state Senate and House Republican leaders on Thursday sent a letter to Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy Acting Director Aaron Keatley requesting the agency make public all of the documents detailing the environmental impacts of the Gotion battery plant project near Big Rapids.     “Many important environmental concerns and questions have been raised and gone unanswered as

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, issued the following statement Thursday after three days of voting on the chamber’s fiscal year 2024 state budget package: “Unfortunately for the people of Michigan, Democrats continue steamrolling ahead with their slim majority to blow through a historic budget surplus with no regard for bipartisan concerns and what seems like zero regard for the future prosperity

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, on Friday issued the following statement after an investigation was published by The Detroit News concerning Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s disastrous unilateral nursing home directives: “The results of the investigation by The Detroit News are tragic and appalling. “While there were many unknowns in the early days of Covid-19, the risk posed by the virus to our

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republicans today announced their “Roadmap for a Better Michigan,” a plan to improve the lives of every Michigander, keep our economy strong, and avoid a second “Lost Decade.” “In only a few short months, Gov. Whitmer and the new Democratic majority have recklessly wasted a historic budget surplus and passed laws that threaten to drive our economy back into the same ditch

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, on Thursday issued the following statement condemning the Senate Appropriations Committee’s approval of state funding for Gotion’s battery plant near Big Rapids: “Once again the new Democratic majority is putting big corporations over struggling families by squandering our state’s historic budget surplus on bad business deals. These tax dollars should be going back into the pockets