At a Capitol news conference, Wolf said Republican lawmakers who “ran out of town” for the year-end holidays needed to “get back to the work of the people”.
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The governor said $23 billion is being released for schools, counties and social services on an emergency basis.
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Signing the spending bill or allowing it to become law would mean hundreds of millions less money for public education than the governor wants, but vetoing it could indefinitely extend the six-month impasse and risk more damage to schools and social services.
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The higher budget was passed by the Senate and twice by the House before House Speaker Mike Turzai, facing a conservative rebellion, sent members home before they could vote.
“That compromise budget was in balance”.
But Albright said, “We can’t go out and issue that debt unless we solve the deep structural budget challenges that our current budget faces”. The other columns reflect how the general fund dollars were distributed previous year, 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.
The following is a line-item breakdown of the budget the governor enacted on Tuesday which is reflected in the column on the far right.
The Republican bill doesn’t include all of the new spending on education Wolf negotiated with GOP leaders, a deal they haven’t been able to get out of the Legislature.
Rob Gleason, the state Republican chairman, said Tuesday that Wolf’s June veto of the budget “needlessly plunged our school districts and nonprofits into a six-month crisis”. 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.
“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. Apparently a $30.3 billion budget that increases education spending by over $400 million without sales or income tax increases is just not enough. Hite says it’s not immediately clear how much money the district would get from Governor Wolf’s emergency appropriation.
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We need one that actually adds up, this year and next. The plan called for $30.8 billion in overall spending, including the $350 million boost for schools.
