“We need to get it right this time, so the legislators elected to do the people’s business, get back to work”, Wolf continued.
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The Republicans’ latest proposal for a state budget “is another display of fiscal irresponsibility that will lead to a $95 million cut to local schools”, maintains an aide to Gov. Tom Wolf.
Wolf called on lawmakers to return to Harrisburg to pass the $30.8 billion plan he wanted. He accused Wolf of making special interests his top priority. Republicans balked at those measures and want reform to the state’s public pension system.
“I’m calling on our legislators to get back to Harrisburg – back to the work they left unfinished last week”. Many schools and counties have had to borrow money. It also lacks some supporting legislation and funding for state-related universities, including Penn State.
The Dept. of Education will release the emergency funding for schools “as soon as possible”, he added.
Hanging in the balance are more layoffs at domestic violence shelters and other social services agencies, more closings of state-subsidized pre-kindergarten programs and the potential that school districts will not reopen after the holiday break or run out of money. “But this is on an emergency basis only”.
Wolf said, in doing this, he is “expressing the outrage that all of us should feel about the garbage the Republican legislative leaders have tried to dump on us”.
“This budget is wrong for Pennsylvania”, Wolf said.
The partial veto will release the aid due to schools for the past six months but hold up some other funding until a budget agreement is reached.
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Although Wolf isn’t talking about his plans, he took to Facebook on Thursday to blast “extremist Republicans” and urge supporters to “continue our fight for historic education funding”. “House Bill 1460 is a $30.3 billion spending plan that increases our investment in PreK-12 education by $405 million and fully supports human services”. Among the rejected items was a proposed increase in the Legislature’s appropriation. That higher budget contains an additional $377 million in education funding.
