Month: August 2025

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on August 12, 2025. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: August 12, 2025 Contact: Erica Freeman, Deputy Communications Director, freemane@pennpolicy.org Statement on the Senate Republicans’ Pennsylvania Budget Bill Republican legislators pass a budget that fails to meet Pennsylvanians’ needs, underfunding Medicaid, education, public transit, and more HARRISBURG, PA ­— The Pennsylvania Policy Center released the following statement by Executive Director Marc Stier on the budget passed by Senate Republicans on August 12, 2025. “Six weeks after the budget deadline, Senate Republicans have voted today to flat-fund education and every other part of the state budget. This budget fails to meet the moral and constitutional requirement—as interpreted by the General Assembly itself last year—to fully and fairly fund our schools. It fails to fund Medicaid at the level necessary to pay for the health care needs the state is obligated to meet by state and federal law.… Continue reading