“I’m going to exercise my constitutional right to line-item veto this ridiculous exercise in budget futility. I’m calling on our legislatures to get back to Harrisburg, to get back to the work they left unfinished last week”, Wolf said.
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House Majority Leader Dave Reed (R., Allegheny) said he was “appreciative that the governor will finally release some of his hostages and sent some of the monies out to our schools and human service programs”. “This budget is wrong for Pennsylvania”.
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Tom Wolf on Tuesday used his line-item veto power to turn down a budget proposal that Republican state officials delivered before state legislators left Harrisburg for the Christmas holiday.
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“In doing this, I am expressing the outrage that all of us should feel about the garbage the Republican legislative leaders have tried to dump on us”, Wolf said Tuesday morning, reading from a speech. And we’ll see huge increases in local taxes and massive additional cuts to our local schools.
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. He also called on legislators to return to Harrisburg. He accused Wolf of making special interests his top priority.
Wolf rejected the Republican budget that he said cuts $95 million from education and is out-of-balance, while directing emergency funding for key services. Philadelphia, the state’s largest school district, said it would have to shut its doors in late January if the budget stalemate is not resolved.
Governor Wolf vetoed parts of the budget because Republicans did not pay for their spending and to ensure a more responsible budget, but he is taking action to ensure that schools receive money owed to them through December 31.
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That money will go toward education funding, state corrections institutions and medical assistance, Wolf said. Among the rejected items was a proposed increase in the Legislature’s appropriation. The budget they concocted doesn’t have enough revenue to leave any room for doing anything to increase funding for our state universities over 2014-15 levels. The other columns reflect how the general fund dollars were distributed a year ago, how they were to be distributed in the “framework” or compromise budget proposal that the Senate and House Democrats agreed to, and how they were to be distributed in the budget bill that the General Assembly sent him last week. We need to pass the budget that the Senate and House passed – Senate Bill 1073.
