Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called on Michigan lawmakers Wednesday to give all workers in the state “breathing room” by creating a new program to offer them paid family and medical leave, a proposal that some worry could amount to a tax on Michigan’s businesses and workers.
Whitmer, a Democrat who is increasingly gaining national political attention, made guaranteed paid time off for workers after the birth of a child or for health reasons a key policy priority in a speech about her legislative goals for the remainder of 2023.
There’s a a few governors that would do well as president, but I’d like to keep them in their current position for a while so they can clean up their states before moving on to run for president. The president, while powerful, can’t do much with a largely divided legislature.
Currently, these governors are doing so much good because in the last election, they were able to build a state government that largely wants to actually help the state and fix problems. If they didn’t have the support of the other branches, they’d just be trying to “compromise” over and over and never actually achieving anything.