Pennsylvania’s 16-week-long budget impasse will grind on for the foreseeable future, as the Republican-controlled state Senate on Tuesday passed another flat-funded budget that Democrats described as half-baked.

Senate Democrats expressed dismay that Republicans were treading over the same ground they were in August, when the Senate GOP passed a budget bill nearly identical to the one that passed Tuesday on a party-line vote.

Republicans said they were justified in holding their ground given the gap between the state’s projected revenues and Shapiro’s desired spending levels, saying that Democrats’ previous compromise offers didn’t bring expenditures down enough to make a meaningful dent in the deficit.

Despite Democrats’ earnest concessions, “they thumbed their nose, said ‘go to he

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