HARRISBURG — A three-day stretch of mostly partisan floor speeches, bill-passing and bill-rejecting ended Wednesday when lawmakers left the Capitol without approving a state budget — 44 days after it was due — and no firm plans to return until September.

The latest actions came Wednesday, when two House committees run by Democrats shot down a pair of major bills passed by the Republican-controlled Senate late Tuesday. One bill was a plan to put nearly $600 million into mass transit over two years, and the other was a $47.6 billion state General Fund spending plan for 2025-26.

The rejections left the Legislature in a scenario where members will be at home in mid- to late-August as schools, nonprofits and other organizations are forced to scramble because of payments failing to arrive from

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