HARRISBURG – Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) issued the following statement in response to Gov. Shapiro’s 2025-26 budget proposal:
“We have many opportunities to invest in our communities in this budget – childcare centers, career and technical education, new and repaired housing – but we must spend within our means. The governor’s budget proposal plays games with numbers to hide future tax increases.
“We cannot follow California and New York down the road of irresponsible spending. If we do, we’ll either have to cut key programs or raise taxes on hardworking Pennsylvanians, neither of which are acceptable to my constituents in Schuylkill, Carbon, and Luzerne counties.
“I found one of his decisions especially insulting to rural Pennsylvania. This proposal would give hundreds of millions of dollars to mass transit without any extra funding to repair our roads and bridges, while his state bureaucracy continues to waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars a year maintaining vacant properties.
“The governor has given us his proposal. Now, the Senate and the House must improve upon it – with honest, bipartisan numbers, not gimmicks – to guide Pennsylvania towards prosperity, away from financial ruin.”
CONTACT: Jim Brugger