Big Beautiful Bill

Several counties in central and northern Michigan used to be exempt from meeting work requirements for SNAP. Now, all counties must follow the rules.

“The Reconciliation Act, which you know as the One Big Beautiful Bill, is not beautiful for us,” said Laura Appel, the executive vice president of government relations and public policy at the Michigan Health & Hospital Association.

Nine environmental groups are taking the Department of Energy to court to end its order to keep the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant open past Consumers Energy's planned closure date.

The money was slotted for stream restoration and farmland preservation across the region.