{"id":104180,"date":"2026-02-03T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104180\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:24:10","slug":"senator-malones-statement-on-governor-shapiros-2026-27-proposed-budget-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104180\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Malone\u2019s Statement on Governor Shapiro\u2019s 2026-27 Proposed Budget Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Senator-James-Malone.jpg\" alt=\"Senator James Malone\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>HARRISBURG, PA \u2013 February 3, 2026 \u2212 Please see the following for Senator James Andrew Malone\u2019s (D-36, Lancaster) statement on Governor Shapiro\u2019s 2026-27 Budget Address today at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI think Governor Shapiro presented a strong budget proposal that seeks to make life more affordable for Pennsylvanians,\u201d said Senator Malone. \u201cThe initiatives he put forward look out for our neighbors by filling gaps left by the federal government while investing in two of my top priorities\u2014education and affordability. This budget will take another important step toward fairly fund Pennsylvania\u2019s public schools and invest in infrastructure to help with housing affordability. I\u2019m\u00a0proud to support it.\u00a0I encourage Senate leadership to come to the negotiating table\u00a0as soon as possible,\u00a0so we can get\u00a0the\u00a0budget done on time this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, PA \u2013 February 3, 2026 \u2212 Please see the following for Senator James Andrew Malone\u2019s (D-36, Lancaster)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50319,442,28,30,29,48694],"class_list":["post-104180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-2026-27-state-budget-address","tag-gov-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-senator-james-malone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}