{"id":31662,"date":"2025-11-12T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31662\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:05:09","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmakers-tentatively-agree-to-50b-state-budget-4-months-late-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31662\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers tentatively agree to $50B state budget 4 months late: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/382EC20527652ACCD7B2BD10369159CF.jpg\" alt=\"Bucks County school district announces plans to shutdown amid PA budget woes\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; Months after the original deadline, state lawmakers have tentatively reached a deal for a budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The $50.09 billion deal was announced on Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox43.com\/article\/news\/politics\/pennsylvania-state-budget-deal\/521-8ca2526f-d5e4-4420-b537-b02aedd59b7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOX 43 in Harrisburg<\/a>. While specifics of the deal are not yet clear, lawmakers told FOX 43 that the agreement likely includes the state gradually withdrawing from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rggi.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Uploads\/Fact%20Sheets\/RGGI_Intro_Factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative<\/a>, an agreement between 11 northeastern states aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The stipulation was reportedly a key Republican demand.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The state budget has been stalled for more than 130 days, with no state money flowing to school districts, county governments, local transportation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/septa-prepares-service-cuts-riders-prepare-catastrophic-impacts\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">organizations like SEPTA<\/a> and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">No other parts of the agreement have been announced. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/content\/dam\/copapwp-pagov\/en\/budget\/documents\/publications-and-reports\/commonwealthbudget\/2025-26-budget-documents\/2025-26%20budget%20book.webversion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">previous proposed budget<\/a> had allocated $168 million to SEPTA.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Lawmakers will reportedly vote on the agreement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story is from FOX 43 Harrisburg, the state of Pennsylvania and previous FOX 29 reports.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/politics\/pa-politics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Politics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/money\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Money<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; Months after the original deadline, state lawmakers have tentatively reached a deal for a budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,139,8347,28,30,29,50],"class_list":["post-31662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-money","tag-news","tag-pa-politics","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31662","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=31662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}