Budget impasse drags on in Pennsylvania as Senate OKs proposal opposed in House | Don’t Miss This

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania General Assembly sat 113 days past deadline to adopt a budget on Tuesday, and despite the Senate advancing a revised version of a prior proposal to the House, lawmakers will be no closer to striking a deal on the 114th day of the ongoing stalemate than they were on the first.

State senators cast a party-line 27-23 vote — all Republicans in favor, all Democrats opposed — to return Senate Bill 160 to the House.

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