Reaction to Wolf’s budget divided along party lines
By TAYLOR BROWN
tbrown@yourmvi.com
Area legislators are both hopeful and frustrated regarding Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2020-21 budget proposal — but all are ready to get to work.
Wolf, who delivered his annual budget address Tuesday, plans to create a major new program for college scholarships, require public schools to provide full-day kindergarten and pump $1 billion into cleaning up lead and asbestos in aging school buildings, among other initiatives.
In his speech to a joint session of the House and Senate, Wolf called his plan a “blueprint for unleashing a new wave of prosperity for our commonwealth” and said it will make a difference in the lives of millions of people.
“It does not ask any of you to join me on any wild-eyed ideological crusade,” Wolf said. “It merely asks that you join me in imagining what this commonwealth can offer to each of its people.”
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