Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Is cutting sales tax exemptions on budget table? Spotlight PA reports that as budget negotiations drag on, some lawmakers are open to the idea of reviewing the many exemptions…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! State budget hangs on ... skill games? The state budget is now more than a week late. And the Post-Gazette reports that regulating skill games is not only dividing…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa. pols react to 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Last week, President Trump signed his ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ into law, and reaction from Pennsylvania’s elected officials broke down largely…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! ‘Time for the Left to come to the school choice table’ As Pa. lawmakers and Gov. Shapiro hammer out a state budget—with Shapiro and other Democrats continuing to stand…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Pa.’s role in largest health care fraud in U.S. history The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced its “largest … health care fraud takedown in history,” which involved more…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Three strikes and you're ... Gov. Josh Shapiro It’s three strikes for the divided Pennsylvania legislature and its leader, Gov. Josh Shapiro,” reports The Center Square. For the third…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Budget deadline arrives; budget does not Today is the state budget deadline, but don’t expect a state budget. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the state “is expected to start…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Bailouts, gaming, and spending hold up budget Spotlight PA reports that lawmakers are set to blow past the traditional June 30 budget deadline as they seek to navigate what…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Medicaid ‘looms’ over state budget talks The Inquirer reports that “ballooning” Medicaid costs are “looming over state budget talks.” And despite all the talk about federal changes to Medicaid to reduce…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Senate committee passes zero-based budgeting Yesterday, the Pa. Senate Finance Committee advanced legislation, sponsored by Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (York County) that would “overhaul Pennsylvania’s budgeting process” by instituting “zero-based budgeting (ZBB),…