Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that a state budget be in place by June 30, but the General Assembly usually ignores this mandate. According to PoliticsPa, only four of the past dozen budgets have been adopted on time. There's no rush because legislators and state employees can still look forward to their paychecks. The spice still flows. But starting soon, the spigots will be turned off at school districts, local governments and with nonprofits.
Governor Josh Shapiro has trimmed his budget spending from $51.4 to $49.9 billion, but that was a week ago. At this point, the failure is irresponsible. How hard is it to have a budget that funds agencies investigating child abuse or school districts that educate our most valuable resource?
NorCo Council will tonight consider yet another nonbinding resolution calling on the state to do what it should have done by the end of June.
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