Argall: Senate Approves Bipartisan State Budget

HARRISBURG - Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) voted today to advance the bipartisan 2025-26 state budget, which makes key improvements to the spending plan Gov. Josh Shapiro proposed earlier this year.

The budget, approved by the Senate and the House by large margins and signed into law, cuts nearly $1.4 billion in spending from Shapiro's proposal.

"This bipartisan budget is a win for Pennsylvania taxpayers," said Argall. "It protects local families from crushing new energy taxes and makes critical investments in local students from pre-school to grad school."

As part of the budget agreement, the governor's regulation mandating Pennsylvania's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was eliminated.

"Eliminating the governor's RGGI energy tax is a major victory for Pennsylvania families and job creators. This harmful regulation would have added more than a billion dollars in new electricity costs while threatening power plant closures, job losses and even rolling blackouts. Preventing Pennsylvania from staying in RGGI protects our consumers, workers and energy independence," said Argall.

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