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Wolf blasts new GOP budget plan

HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday blasted the latest budget plan to be advanced by Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania’s eight-month partisan battle that has left billions of dollars in limbo and schools and universities warning of closures.

Wolf said the no-new-taxes plan unveiled by Republicans on Tuesday afternoon is out of balance and leaves a deficit of about $1.6 billion next year by the Republicans’ own calculations.

He declined to say whether he would veto it.

“I’ve been consistent. I want a budget that is balanced, where the math actually works and it invests in the things that Pennsylvania needs to invest in,” Wolf said after an event in the Capitol. “We are looking at a train wreck in 2016-17, a huge deficit if we don’t do something about this.”

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