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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers have passed a $50.1 billion budget that makes additional investments in public schools, creates a new tax credit for lower-income people and ends the state’s participation in a climate program.
Philadelphia’s Democrats in Congress are furious with Senate Democratic colleagues who backed a Republican-led plan to reopen the government. Eight moderate Democrats, including Sen. John Fetterman, who has been voting with the GOP since September,
Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a $50.1 billion state budget, ending a four-month stalemate. Public schools will receive increased funding, while cyber charter schools face funding reforms. Pennsylvania will withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as a key part of the agreement.
The Pennsylvania Budget is finally passed and signed into law, and legislators from the Lehigh Valley say it's about time.
Passed with a 156-47 vote in the House and a 40-9 vote in the Senate, the $50.1 billion package, Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the plan Wednesday, ending a more-than-four-month impasse.