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PA Senate Reveals Spending Bill, But Financing Plan
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HARRISBURG (WSKG) — Lawmakers and Governor Tom Wolf appear to have come to an agreement on a $32 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts at midnight Friday. That doesn’t mean the budget is done. A revenue package to balance it still isn’t ready, and there are significant disagreements standing in the way of passing it. Still, politicians on both sides of the aisle lauded the spending plan, which passed a late-night Senate appropriations committee meeting with three dissenting votes. The House and Senate are expected to concur on it Friday, and send it to the governor’s desk the same day. The spend number falls between Wolf’s proposal and the House GOP’s austere plan.