Although local state legislators had hoped that Gov. Tom Wolf would accept parts of an 11-month so-called “stop gap” budget, the governor said Tuesday he would veto in its entirety any stop-gap budget bill. But the House Appropriations Committee approved a spending plan for $28.2 billion, which sets up a Tuesday vote in the full House.
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State tax collections aren’t expected to cover a full year of bills without spending cuts.
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Along with Illinois, Pennsylvania is one of just two states still fighting over a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1.
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Voicing optimism after the passage of a $1.8 trillion spending and tax cut package Friday, Ryan acknowledged that divided government means that Republicans were not in a position to achieve all their goals but they had succeeded in bringing relief to U.S. taxpayers and business owners. Wolf criticized it then as shortchanging public schools and using gimmicks to balance.
But there was one group that has mustered strong feelings about the omnibus measure – Republican conservatives who are particularly incensed that House Speaker Paul Ryan was willing to go along with the deal.
The measure received big majorities in the House from Republicans and Democrats.
Lawmakers in the House suggested a stop gap budget, but Governor Wolf and members of the Senate dismissed that as an option.
Rep. John McGinnis, R-Blair, argued on the floor that the proposal would have actually increased the state’s pension debt and that the Legislature should instead look to completely end the defined-benefit, traditional pension. “We are confident we have the support to pass that and the votes to pass that”, said Wolf spokesperson Jeffrey Sheridan.
The House’s huge Republican majority is opposing practically every element of a budget deal their leaders helped negotiate. A number of conservative members of the Republican majority opposed the measure because they said it spends too much money.
“There’s some things in there that I don’t like, but that’s the nature of legislation and compromise, and I think the system worked”, the president said at his year-end news conference at the White House before traveling with his family on their annual vacation to Hawaii. “It’s time for everybody to get back to work and fix this now”.
The 316-113 vote sends the bill to the Senate.
Costa called the House GOP’s moves a “charade” and said it would not be taken seriously in the Senate, given Wolf’s veto threat.
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“There were a lot of people who didn’t want to vote for this, but they were giving him a vote out of good faith”, Labrador said.
