LANSING – The return of high school sports announced Thursday is a part of a much larger political battle in Lansing. The GOP Legislature is tying more than $3 billion in COVID relief to Gov. RELATED: Michigan GOP threatens to withhold billions in school funding over COVID precautions“I am eager to find common ground with the Legislature so that we can get this done,” Whitmer said. We need to use these tax dollars, they are our tax dollars,” Schroeder said. READ: 7 takeaways from Whitmer’s COVID update: Michigan sports, variant spread, metrics