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Who is responsible for solving Pennsylvania’s budget divide? Christen Smith October 21, 2025 October 20, 2025

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(The Center Square) – There’s an old saying that only two things in life are certain: death and taxes.

Perhaps Pennsylvania’s hopelessly gridlocked Legislature may add one more: division. It’s a chasm that, for now, is too broad for even the most engineering of cartoon characters to pole vault across.

Instead, Democrats and Republicans watch as cash from taxpayers’ wallets floats down into the darkness of the canyon between them, with no apparent urgency to stop it, not even as Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro cuts an authoritative figure on the horizon.

That’s where figurative negotia

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