The Michigan House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education and Community Colleges voted to advance a Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations bill that would cut over 62% of the state’s funding for both Michigan State University and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
The bill overall would cut 7.5% from the state’s higher education budget, around $175 million.
Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Twp.) doubled down on attacks from state Republican leaders on the prenatal and infant direct cash support program Rx Kids as a justification for cutting funding for Michigan State University — over $199 million — in a higher education budget proposal put forward and passed through subcommittee on Thursday…