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Governor — Michigan
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Scenario analysis, not a prediction: Gretchen Whitmer built a Michigan record on infrastructure — a $4.8 billion Building Michigan Together plan, 16,000-plus lane miles and 1,200 bridges rebuilt, then a $3 billion a year Mi Road Ahead funding proposal. Her first 100 days as president would be a test of whether that playbook scales to Washington.
Gretchen Whitmer codified the ACA in state law, erased nearly $200 million in medical debt, and built a Medicaid protection budget while Washington cut. Her pitch for a presidency would be cost-cutting without a system overhaul. Here is what a Whitmer first 100 days could actually do about what Americans pay.
Vance, Rubio, DeSantis and Cruz on one side; Newsom, Harris, Whitmer, Shapiro and Ocasio-Cortez on the other. Across immigration, AI, taxes, energy, healthcare, education, defense and regulation, every would-be first-100-days agenda sorts into the same five buckets — and the buckets, not the candidates, decide what actually happens. Scenario analysis, not a prediction or endorsement.
Gretchen Whitmer's Michigan record is a running experiment in Midwest industrial policy: a $2 billion SOAR subsidy fund, a $3.5 billion Ford battery park, tens of thousands of announced auto jobs — and documented shortfalls. A scenario analysis of what a Whitmer first 100 days could do for the industrial Midwest. Not a prediction. Not an endorsement.