Most of Pennsylvania’s legislature was back in Harrisburg Tuesday night to work on a deal to end Pennsylvania’s 19-week-long budget impasse.

The Republican-majority state Senate is set to take votes this evening to advance elements of the deal, while the House’s Democratic majority held a closed-door caucus meeting ahead of session time scheduled for tomorrow morning.

The deal circulating Tuesday night totals $50.1 billion in spending from the general fund, the state’s main operating account. This would be a 4.7% increase over the 2024-25 budget, but a compromise from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed $51.5 billion.

The spending proposal keeps most of Shapiro’s increases in K-12 public education subsidies and makes mostly inflationary adjustments to other appropriations.

The deal might al

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