HARRISBURG — Republican lawmakers say they’ll advance budget legislation this week that they hope will end Pennsylvania’s eight-month-old partisan gridlock.
Lawmakers said they’ll unveil details Tuesday and expect to put a bill on Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk Wednesday.
Billions of dollars remain in limbo, as schools borrow to stay open and Penn State threatens to shut down agricultural extension offices.
A bipartisan deal collapsed in December, after House GOP leaders pulled support. That deal involved a $1 billion-plus tax increase that Wolf had sought to narrow a deficit and begin wiping out funding cuts to public schools in 2011.
Republicans say their bill doesn’t require a tax increase to balance, and will deliver half the public school increase, $200 million, that Wolf had sought. Wolf’s office calls it “irresponsible and unbalanced.”
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