House Dems' latest budget slices off funding for higher education

Source: mcall.com Posted By: Bailey C...5394 days ago

Democrats who control the state House dramatically upped the stakes in this year's budget debate on Monday, proposing a $29.1 billion budget that effectively defunds higher education in a theatrical effort to break a nearly two-week old stalemate.

''I balanced the budget,'' the plan's architect, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dwight Evans, boasted to reporters. ''I'm holding myself out as someone who wants to get this done.''

Not so, said Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati,....

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