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Wolf Announces Budget Plans
Leaders of the Republican majorities in the House and Senate were still reviewing the nuts and bolts of Wolf’s action, though there was no evidence of any quick callback of members to Harrisburg for a new round of voting sessions. Both proposals required unspecified tax increases. He accused Wolf of making special interests his top priority.
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Wolf urged lawmakers to return to Harrisburg to reach a compromise.
“Let’s get back to work to finish the job you nearly finished last week”, he said. The Republican budget will lead to more struggles for local schools and more credit downgrades.
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.
Wolf scheduled a news conference this morning in the Capitol to discuss the budget.
“Negotiations are over”, said Wolf spokesman Jeff Sheridan. “We’re waiting to hear from him”.
The governor also has line-item veto authority to cancel some spending categories and allow others.
“It is deeply disappointing that the Legislature wants to continue the failed status quo and harm our schools and children by denying them critical funds”, the post said. “I think that was something we need to do”. “We call on him to sign this bill before he causes unnecessary school closures and wreaks further havoc on vulnerable Pennsylvanians”. The legislature left for vacation without passing appropriations bills for state-related universities, Penn State, University of Pittsburgh, Lincoln University, Temple University, and the Penn School of Veterinary Science, and other “non-preferred” institutions.
That money will go toward education funding, state corrections institutions and medical assistance, Wolf said.
Budget Secretary Randy Albright said that with $23.3 billion in total funding, schools will get 6-months of funding in this bill as “emergency funding”.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is about to announce his plans for a Republican-passed spending plan he could sign, reject or whittle down.
The House GOP’s budget bill perpetuates what some call a decade of cuts to social services, squeezing programs and the wages of people who care for the elderly and disabled. House Democrats maintained their longstanding opposition to the pension bill, and it failed, 149-52, in what many viewed as a proxy defeat of the bipartisan budget agreement.
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The details of the proposed tax hikes to accompany the spending plan were never put into legislation or publicly disclosed.