Farhat ousted from key budget post amid GOP standoff and failed Michigan House votes

Farhat ousted from key budget post amid GOP standoff and failed Michigan House votes • Michigan Advance

State Rep. Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn) talks with reporters. February 2024 | Kyle DavidsonState Rep. Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn) was removed as the minority vice chair of the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday evening after a political standoff on the chamber floor ended with two Republican priorities dying without enough votes to pass. The episode was just another bad blood performance between the Republican and Democratic House caucuses …

Farhat ousted from key budget post amid GOP standoff and failed Michigan House votes

State Rep. Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn) was removed as the minority vice chair of the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday evening after a political standoff on the chamber floor ended with two Republican priorities dying without enough votes to pass. The…

Key Democrat is stripped of budget role amid legislative stalemate

LANSING — A stalemate over the state budget is even more unlikely to be resolved anytime soon amid new turmoil in the Michigan House, whose Republican leader late Thursday booted Democrats’ budget point person after the chamber failed to pass other bills. Rep. Alabas Farhat, D-Dearborn, did not hold back... Please login to read all 897 words.