Pennsylvania’s fiscal year 2023-24 state budget is now three weeks late. Budgets not approved by the General assembly and signed by the governor are fairly commonplace in Pennsylvania. In the past 20 years, 13 budgets have been approved after the June 30th deadline. But this year is different. A 45 billion dollar spending plan has been passed by both the House and Senate, but the Senate with a Republican majority won’t reconvene to sign off on the budget because they claim Shapiro reneged on a deal to create a state-funded private school voucher program. Spotlight PA’s Stephen Caruso this week reported on past budget impasses and is on The Spark today to see if we can learn anything from history.

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