Republicans hope Wolf will sign it, putting an end to borrowing, layoffs or service delays by school districts, counties and social services agencies forced to get by without state aid.
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Most House Republicans are opposing crucial pieces of a bipartisan budget deal to raise taxes to increase public school aid and close a deficit.
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The House voted 149-52 against a bill that would have forced newly hired teachers and state workers into a hybrid system made up of a traditional pension alongside a 401(k)-style benefit.
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Tom Wolf a most unwelcome gift – a $30.2 billion budget bill similar to one he vetoed earlier this year, after a compromise that would have included pension reform and changes to how liquor is sold collapsed, amid a weird series of events in the state House of Representatives, this week.
It’s unconstitutional for a governor to sign a spending plan without a tax plan, he said.
Though Pelosi was opposing the tax measure, Democrats were divided over the overall budget deal.
The ball is in Governor Wolf’s court after a desperate state Senate Wednesday sent the governor a budget he doesn’t want. “We have a budget bill we can vote on now that will get critical funding to our schools and our human service providers”, he continued in a statement.
The House had been expected to advance a partial year stopgap budget that the Governor had promised to veto.
In a letter Thursday urging fellow Democrats to support the spending bill, Pelosi wrote, “Personally, I was dismayed by Republicans’ insistence on lifting the oil export ban”. “We’re not going to pass legislation based on rumors and innuendos”, said Steve Miskin, a spokesman for the House Republican caucus.
Pennsylvania state government’s 6-month-old budget stalemate is crumbling, but disagreements remain as lawmakers rush to approve bipartisan budget legislation before Christmas.
The Senate passed the budget bill in a vote mostly along party lines.
“It seems that the Republican Legislature is intent on continuing the Harrisburg status quo and getting out of town to go on vacation instead of continuing the hard work to move Pennsylvania forward”, the governor said in a prepared release.
Smith applauded Wolf’s decision to veto the “stop-gap” budget, which she said represented a failure of the legislature to do its job. Some said it didn’t go far enough to address the state’s unfunded pension liability. A good start, she said, would be to put an end to gerrymandering, which some have argued have given Republicans undue control of the state, despite there being almost a million more registered Democrats. The GOP-controlled House gave final approval on that day to a hike in the state personal income tax rate to fund education programs that Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell wanted.
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“This isn’t exactly how I predicted today to turn out”, said House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, speaking after the vote. When the House reconvenes on Monday he said they can send the remaining school code and fiscal code that have to accompany it. They can also include any non-tax revenue that might be needed to reach $309 million, such as cuts.
