HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -- The Republican-controlled State Senate passed its version of a budget, but it's not the budget House Democrats and the governor want.

The $47.9 billion spending plan will fund essential services without raising taxes, Senate Republicans said. It's $300 million more than the budget proposal the chamber passed in August.

More than 100 days since the June 30 deadline for a budget, the number comes in below the $50.3 billion budget proposed by House Democrats.

It's also less than a number floated back in August by Republican Majority Leader Sen. Joe Pittman, one closer to what Democrats find agreeable.

"If we could get a spend number at $49 billion, I think most of my caucus would be very much on board with that," Pittman said on an Aug. 17 episode of This Week in

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