“I think the Governor is really overlooking the fact that our government has three co-equal branches, and we all have to get along”, Yaw said.
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“The Governor essentially vetoed some of the very things he asked for”. Wolf, a longtime businessman and first-time politician who took office in January on a campaign promise to raise taxes on the state’s oil and gas industry, appeared agitated on Wednesday, criticizing Republican lawmakers and calling the state of negotiations “beyond pathetic”.
“They’re poking me in the eye again”.
Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, pointing to another possible federal government shutdown, said Pennsylvania lawmakers are acting to the contrary.
The governor and the Department of Human Services are being sued over the current 80-day budget impasse centered on funding school spending with liquor privatization and pension reform.
“The Republican plan to pass a stopgap budget is yet another gimmick that further highlights the Republican’s clear comfort with politics as usual in Harrisburg and embracing a failed status quo that is holding PA back”, Wolf’s press secretary Jeffrey Sheridan said, slamming the GOP for four years of “fiscally irresponsible” budgets.
At a September 7 meeting in Pittsburgh, Wolf left top Republicans with the impression that he would sign a stopgap bill as long as it was bipartisan effort, House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, said Tuesday. The people of Pennsylvania want more, and they deserve better. The portion of salaries above that would get a 2.5 percent match toward a 401(k)-style retirement plan. That story stated only that GOP spokespeople said Republican leaders needed time to consider the lease proposal, as well as a pension reform plan Wolf included as another concession.
“Basic necessities, the provision of food, clothing, shelter, safety monitoring, coordinating medical dental psychological services, educational services, and the juvenile justice system is impacted as well”, the Council’s attorney Joel Frank told KDKA money editor Jon Delano on Wednesday.
“We’ve been through it before, sadly. They’re not”, Wolf responded. “Rather, he would fund the special interests in the alternative energy industry before a penny of new money would get to schools”.
Delano: “In order to pay your workers?”
Heit: “That’s correct. It’s unconscionable”.
Pennsylvania has been operating without a spending plan for the year that began in July because the Republican-led legislature and first-term governor have remained at loggerheads over proposed tax increases and overhauls to the public employee pension system.
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The question of whether Republicans rejected the liquor proposal comes after one of the more contentious days in Pennsylvania’s ongoing budget standoff.
