Also, Senate Republican leaders have said they will not allow a vote on the tax code if the House does not adopt a pension reform bill senators had previously passed as part of a deal with Wolf to get a budget done.
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“We still have a ways to go, but this was a nice step in the right direction”, Wolf said. “We’ll be here awhile”.
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Because the House rejected the measure over the weekend, the chamber would have to either reconsider the bill – or vote on a new version that the Senate could pass and forward.
If the $30.8 billion spending bill receives the necessary 102 votes in the House on Wednesday, it would move to Wolf’s desk for his signature. “The Republicans in the House blew that up”.
The coalition sent a bipartisan spending bill over a key procedural hurdle, raising the possibility that it could send the main appropriations bill in a $30.8 billion spending package to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk as early as Wednesday.
Along with Illinois, Pennsylvania is one of just two states still fighting over a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1.
With billions in state aid held up, cash-strapped school districts are borrowing to stay open, social service agencies are laying off workers and state-subsidized prekindergarten programs are closing to hundreds of children in low-income families.
“It doesn’t have the money the schools actually need”.
“We can’t send a budget bill to the governor until they show us the tax code bill”, House Majority Leader David Reed, R-Indiana, said.
But House Republicans revolted.
Senate Republican leaders had tied the pension legislation to their support for the tax and spending package, and many in the Capitol viewed the House GOP’s change of heart as an effort to stop the bipartisan tax plan.
Their chance came when GOP leaders offered their latest stopgap funding proposal, and they pounced with a motion that even House leaders can’t block.
Christiana noted he does not support the framework budget or the new taxes that would be needed to support it. But he said it has to be considered before the state Senate or Wolf will consider other options. “It’s time for everybody to get back to work and fix this now”.
Describing her first negotiations with Ryan, Pelosi said Republicans wanted the ban lifted so badly that “they gave away the store”.
A proposal to overhaul public pension benefits failed in the House, scoring less than half of the House Republican majority and zero Democratic votes.
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Wolf’s office said Friday it had corralled enough support from Democrats and moderate Republicans to pass the tax legislation, over the opposition of House Republican leaders. But Democrats had always been against the pension bill, and House Republicans began to see it as a precursor to a tax vote.
