{"id":247345,"date":"2026-07-19T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247345\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:33:11","slug":"face-the-state-breaking-down-pennsylvanias-50-8-billion-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247345\/","title":{"rendered":"Face the State | Breaking down Pennsylvania&#8217;s $50.8 billion state budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 In this week\u2019s edition of Face the State, host Joel D. Smith takes a deep dive on Pennsylvania\u2019s 2026-27 state budget that was signed into law last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>MORE ON THE BUDGET | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/politics-pa\/pennsylvania-lawmakers-to-vote-on-508-billion-budget-republican-democrats-governor-josh-shapiro-house-senate-deadline-july-12-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania lawmakers pass $50.8B budget deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Scott Martin and Democratic Rep. Nate Davidson join the show to talk about their perspectives on what $50.8 billion budget actually means.<\/p>\n<p>Then, political insiders Tony Lepore and Charlie Gerow react to <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/trump-speaking-at-defense-and-innovation-summit-in-carlisle-what-to-expect-pa-pennsylvania-president-cumberland-county-economy-politics-war-investment-finance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Donald Trump\u2019s comments<\/a> in Carlisle last week and what he said about Gov. Josh Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more Face the State <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/face-the-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 In this week\u2019s edition of Face the State, host Joel D. Smith takes a deep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-247345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247345","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=247345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}