Pennsylvania’s budget impasse is no closer to being resolved, as the state Senate on Tuesday passed fiscal legislation — including a measure on mass transit — that is a non-starter for the House and governor.

On party-line votes, the Republican-majority state Senate passed an appropriations bill that would flat-fund the 2025-26 budget, zeroing out the new initiatives and cost adjustments that Gov. Josh Shapiro had proposed in his February budget framework.

The Senate GOP also passed a bill that would fund both mass transit and road infrastructure by redirecting yet-to-be-used capital improvement money from the state’s public transit fund — a raw deal for transit agencies, according to Democrats.

“We have transit money that is not being used. Let’s put it on the street and put it to us

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