LANSING — A scaled-back road funding plan that is part of a 2026 budget agreement reached Sept. 25 between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and legislative leaders would dedicate more than $1.5 billion a year in additional funding to fix local roads, according to summaries prepared by the House Fiscal Agency.

The plan, which relies in part on a new 24% wholesale tax on marijuana, is about half as big as the $3 billion road deal Whitmer and House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, had aimed for . The plan also draws on redirecting corporate income tax revenues and removing the 6% sales tax from fuel sales to allow for a 20-cent-per-gallon hike in the fuel tax, while leaving the price paid at the pump about the same. Together, the changes are expected to increase annual road funding by $1.5 bil

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