At a Capitol news conference, Wolf said Republican lawmakers who “ran out of town” off for the year-end holidays needed to “get back to the work of the people”.
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While he didn’t give a total number for the emergency funding for schools, Wolf said that he “doesn’t want to hold schoolchildren in this state hostage” and called for legislators to return with a compromised bill.
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In announcing his decision to exercise his line-item veto authority on the .3 billion House GOP-crafted spending plan the Senate sent him last week, Wolf referred to the budget as “garbage” and “doubly frustrating because we were so close to a reasonable” compromise budget that would have spent $500 million more – mostly for education.
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“I am expressing the outrage that all of us should feel about the garbage the Republican legislative leaders have tried to dump on us”, said a visibly angry Wolf.
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.
“I don’t think him signing means he loses and the GOP wins”, Patti said. “This is a responsible spending plan that generously funds our government without the need for massive taxes on the income and purchases of hard-working Pennsylvanians”.
Wolf also reduced House and Senate budgets back to 2014-2015 funding levels. Legislation to send an annual subsidy of almost $600 million to Penn State, Temple, Pitt, Lincoln and the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school remains in the House and apparently can not pass without a tax increase of some sort. “I think that was something we need to do”. I’m also letting funding go out to our human service agencies and to our counties.
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.
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Governor Wolf’s budget action allows Philadelphia schools to operate beyond the end of next month. They have not paid for the budget they passed, which would further increase our deficit that stood at $2.3 billion earlier this year. He said the schools will be getting the money they are owed from the past six months.
