In a move targeted to prevent schools from closing because of the protracted state budget impasse, Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday signed a $23.4 billion emergency funding budget. The announcement, made during a news conference, is the latest in the ongoing budget battle in Harrisburg.
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Dec 29 Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Tuesday rejected a budget proposed by Republican-led lawmakers, calling it “garbage”, but allowed spending on education and some services to be funded to avoid a threatened closure of schools in the state.
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“In doing this, I’m expressing the outrage that all of us should feel about the garbage the Republican legislative leaders have tried to dump on us”, Gov. Wolf continued.
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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.
The governor said he is using a line item veto to eliminate much of that budget.
“This means that their budget is an effective $95 million cut to school districts after years of cuts under previous Republican budgets”.
No funding is provided to Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln universities or to the University of Pennsylvania vet school. I had worked patiently and persistently with Republican leaders over the past many months to agree on a compromise budget.
School districts across the state have had to borrow at least $900 million in total in order to stay open.
The bill resembles a GOP budget plan Wolf vetoed on June 30.
As Governor Wolf has warned for months, Pennsylvania is facing a massive structural budget deficit as a result of years of Republican budgets that were out of balance.
“Let’s get back to work to finish the job you nearly finished last week”, he said.
“Apparently a $30.3 billion budget that increases education spending by over $400 million without sales or income tax increases is just not enough”, Reed said in a statement. A property tax cut measure was defeated by a single vote in the Senate and was immediately declared dead. He said the schools will be getting the money they are owed from the past six months.
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In recent weeks, Wolf had been pushing legislators to pass a so-called framework agreement that he and Senate Republicans had touted since Thanksgiving.
