Wednesday tied its modern-day record for a budget impasse, set in 2003 by another first-year Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, and a Republican-controlled Legislature.
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Gov. Tom Wolf says he’s pleased, but that there’s still a ways to go after signs of a breakthrough in Pennsylvania’s budget stalemate emerged three days before Christmas. Wolf said he would veto it.
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“A stopgap budget does not change the status quo that Harrisburg has accepted for too long”, a Wolf news release stated.
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The surprising move saw the Pa. House vote to revive the $30.8 billion budget “framework” agreed upon by Gov. Wolf and Senate Republicans.
“Change is hard, and clearly more so given this legislature, but we must continue our fight for historic education funding that will begin to restore the cuts from five years ago, and a budget that is balanced, paid for, and fixes our deficit”, Wolf said in the statement.
Pennsylvania has been without a state budget since July 1, straining both school districts and human service agencies who have had no state funds since then. Senate Republicans said they would not raise taxes, as the budget supported by Mr. Wolf would require, without the reduction in the pension guaranteed to future state and school workers.
The pension bill failed in the House over the weekend, meaning it would likely have to be brought up for reconsideration and given enough votes to pass.
The Pennsylvania state Senate is advancing budget legislation that it previously opposed.
His office isn’t saying whether he’d sign a short-term plan.
Wolf said Republicans “inexplicably blew up a bipartisan budget deal” that House GOP leaders had helped negotiate.
Pension legislation favored by Senate Republicans lacks support in the House.
In a brief Appropriations Committee meeting Monday, House Republicans defended the short-term spending plan as the responsible thing to do for social services crippled by the cutoff in state aid and school districts that have discussed staying closed after the winter break to avoid borrowing more money. If approved, the bill – one of several needed to enact a final budget – could be sent immediately to Wolf’s desk for a signature. “Marco Rubio is to Jeb Bush as Paul Ryan is to John Boehner”, and Levin had claimed that in passing the bill, congressional Republicans had “betrayed you … your children and grandchildren”.
Pennsylvania has gone six months into its fiscal year without a legal spending plan in place, a dubious distinction it shares with only one other state, Illinois. It was unclear whether the state Senate would be willing to take up the interim budget plan if passed by the house.
A representative for Republican Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman couldn’t immediately be reached to comment.
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He said Scranton School District will need a substantial boost in state aid now that it has been forced to borrow money due to the stalemate.
