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PA GOP Lawmakers Try New Budget Tactic

HARRISBURG (CBS) -- Republicans in the state legislature are planning yet another maneuver in an effort to wrap up the budget for the current fiscal year, now almost nine months overdue.

In December, the Republican-controlled legislature sent Democratic Governor Tom Wolf a budget that spent less than he wanted. Wolf signed some budget lines and vetoed others. Now Senate Republican leader Jake Corman says the plan is to send the Governor a fresh, reworked version of the budget lines he vetoed.

"The remaining – was it 13 percent or so? – of the budget the governor blue-lined, yet another attempt to bring the 15-16 spending plan to a closure," Corman said.

Governor Wolf Tuesday didn't sound like he'd had a change of heart on the subject.

"I've been consistent – I want a budget that is balanced, where the math actually works, and that invests in the things that Pennsylvania needs to invest in."

But Wolf stopped short of promising a veto of the GOP-controlled legislature's latest budget gambit.

 

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