House Approves Short-Term Budget

The State House has approved a short-term budget although Governor Tom Wolf has already promised he will veto the plan. Voting fell along party lines yesterday by lawmakers. Wolf wants Republicans to come up with significantly more funding for public schools and to fix a long-term deficit. Elder Vogel Jr. – the Republican senator from the 47th district – talked about the budget process from the Republican perspective on AM Beaver County with Al Goehring this morning. Vogel says if Wolf follows through with his veto of the bill, then it’s back to the drawing board for legislators in Harrisburg.