Gov. Tom Wolf announced Tuesday that he will line-item veto the latest Pennsylvania budget proposal, while releasing some emergency funding to keep schools and human services organizations in operation.
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Wolf’s office said it did not expect a decision before Monday, and the governor has options. What he does might set the tone for a way the Legislature deals with him for the three years of time of time left in his 1st term.
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Even if Wolf signs the budget bill, questions about it remain unanswered. He might let it grow to be law with out his signature.
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Peg Dierkers, of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, says the governor is left with the ultimate leadership decision. There is also alarm that business tax credit programs subsidizing private and parochial school tuition scholarships will expire.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf isn’t saying yet what he’ll do with the budget bill on his desk as a state government impasse threatens to enter its seventh month. He specifically cited what he says is a $95 million cut in funding for education.
But Republicans retreated to the House-backed $30.3 billion plan after the House balked at a Senate -backed bill to restructure state pension benefits, which many observers viewed as a proxy defeat of the more costly bipartisan budget agreement.
Wolf called the Republican spending plan “wrong for Pennsylvania”.
It leaves big question marks.
For instance, companion legislation directing the distribution of almost $6 billion in public school aid is still pending in the House. Apparently a $30.3 billion budget that increases education spending by over $400 million without sales or income tax increases is just not enough.
“This budget is doubly frustrating because we were so close to a reasonable one”, Wolf said at a press conference in Harrisburg. I get it that everyone is exhausted of this stalemate.
Besides signing or vetoing it, Wolf has other options. Its budget bill shortchanges schoolchildren and reinforces unacceptable funding inequities, the center said.
Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason said in a statement Tuesday that Wolf’s June veto of the budget “needlessly plunged our school districts and non-profits into a six-month crisis”.
Counties and social services organizations are torn.
Wolf also reduced House and Senate budgets back to 2014-2015 funding levels.
Pennsylvania was supposed to have a budget in place by the end of June.
“However, if dollars don’t start flowing, more layoffs and shutdowns are guaranteed”, Rotz said in a statement.
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Other “blue line”, or line-item changes, included in the general fund budget revert numbers to the “framework” budget worked out with the Senate Republicans and Democrats and House Democrats, but not for all of the roughly 100 changes.
