Sen. Jonathan Lindsey is championing a bipartisan legislation to address medical debt in Michigan. This week on WDET's MichMash, Gongwer News Service's Zach Gorchow sits down with the senator to see what interested him in this issue.

Before that WDET's Cheyna Roth sits down with Zach to go over the latest campaign finance reports for the upcoming election.

There are some major races later this year with multiple candidates vying for positions of governor, representatives, state house and state senate seats, and US congressional seats as well. This week on MichMash Cheyna Roth and Alethia Kasben talk to Kristin Combs, founder of Bright Spark Strategies. They discuss how the Republican party candidates are doing in their respective races.

Although minor, Gov. Whitmer and President Trump have found common ground this year but recently, at Detroit's auto show, Whitmer addressed her disagreements with Trump's tariff strategy and the ICE presence in Minneapolis. This week on MichMash, WDET's Cheyna Roth and Gongwer News Service's Alethia Kasben discuss what these statements could mean for future dealings with the Trump administration.

Then later in the episode, Oakland superintendent Kenneth Gutman, about legislation to ban cell phones in school making its way through the legislature and a lot more.