Post by Logan on Feb 25, 2016 12:21:41 GMT -6
OLYMPIA – Senate Republicans released a $38.2 billion budget plan Wednesday that would spend less on schools, mental health or homeless programs than either the House Democrats or Gov. Jay Inslee have proposed.
Unlike the other spending plans, the Senate supplemental budget relies on no tax changes and doesn’t tap the state’s emergency reserves, even though Republicans in both chambers have signaled the cost of fighting last year’s wildfires should come out of a special account generally called the Rainy Day fund.
“We spend less money than the House does,” Senate Ways and Means Chairman Andy Hill, R-Redmond, said. “If you don’t spend as much money, you don’t have to go into the Rainy Day fund.”
The spending plans, which make adjustments for the second half of the state’s two-year budget, are so different that the Legislature may need to go into overtime to reach a compromise.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/24/senate-house-budgets-far-apart/
Unlike the other spending plans, the Senate supplemental budget relies on no tax changes and doesn’t tap the state’s emergency reserves, even though Republicans in both chambers have signaled the cost of fighting last year’s wildfires should come out of a special account generally called the Rainy Day fund.
“We spend less money than the House does,” Senate Ways and Means Chairman Andy Hill, R-Redmond, said. “If you don’t spend as much money, you don’t have to go into the Rainy Day fund.”
The spending plans, which make adjustments for the second half of the state’s two-year budget, are so different that the Legislature may need to go into overtime to reach a compromise.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/24/senate-house-budgets-far-apart/