Episode 20: Budget season is back, baby

A deep-dive into Wolf's latest pitch to the House and Senate.

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  Katie Meyer was WITF’s Capitol Bureau Chief from 2016-2020. While at WITF, she covered all things state politics for public radio stations throughout Pennsylvania. Katie came to Harrisburg by way of New York City, where she worked at Fordham University’s public radio station, WFUV, as an anchor, general assignment reporter, and co-host of an original podcast. A 2016 graduate of Fordham, she earned several awards for her work at WFUV, including four 2016 Gracies.
  
  Katie is a native New Yorker, though she originally hails from Troy, a little farther up the Hudson River. She can attest that the bagels are still pretty good there.
  
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The state Capitol building in Harrisburg.

Governor Tom Wolf gave his annual budget address Tuesday, officially kicking off the next several months of negotiations between himself and the Republican-controlled legislature.

This is the governor’s fifth year in office, and his fifth budget. In the past, his initial proposals have gotten reactions ranging from derision to outrage from the House and Senate.

Last year Wolf tried a more modest budget plan to avoid an election-year impasse—an approach he seems to be renewing this time around.

Republicans, for the most part, were pretty pleased. But there is still a lot of room for disagreement, and a lot of tricky little provisions in Wolf’s proposal to explore. So public radio reporters Brett Sholtis, Emily Previti, and Avi Wolfman-Arent join us this week to explain it all.