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NEW STATE: No action on budget likely until Monday; state workers set to protest Pennsylvania’s tax revenues finished the fiscal year June 30 nearly $3.3 billion below projections, and the budget negotiation process has turned into a partisan stalemate that has sharply reduced the state’s ability to pay bills.
Most state workers will begin to feel the pinch July 17, when partial paychecks begin to go out. Two weeks later even those partial payments will stop. Eight unions that represent state workers announced that on Tuesday their members will demonstrate during lunch breaks outside their work sites, and a noon rally was scheduled at the state Capitol. They are also encouraging their members to flood the phone lines of the governor and lawmakers. As outlines of the Democratic approach began to surface earlier Thursday, Rendell spokesman Chuck Ardo would not rule out the possibility that Rendell might sign the GOP spending plan after making about $1.7 billion in additional cuts. “You can’t exclude anything at this point,” Ardo said. Rendell’s revised budget proposal is about $2 billion higher than the Senate Republicans’. 
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