Harrisburg, but -12 August 2025-Senator Amanda M. Cappelletti (D-17 Montgomery/Delaware) published the following statement after today’s session in Harrisburg:
“Today the Senate has disappointed – once again – the delivery of Pennsylwanians. Because the deadline for transferring to our budget has passed and the deadline to stop the destructive cuts to the septa loom, do not make a mistake: your state government has again failed. The general assembly has a constitutional obligation to obtain a constitutional obligation to obtain a constitutional obligation to obtain a constitutional obligation. unfathomable.
Instead of working with democrats to create a two -sided, long -term solution for financing our agencies of the Nations and Public Community, which could pass both chambers, the Republicans of the Senate terminated miniature -sighted proposals that will not meet this moment. Their plan to finance public transport steals funds for maintaining Transit capital to cover a fleeting, two-year financing amendment-to create us right where we started in 2027.
In addition, their plan requires annual tariff increases for SEPTA riders associated with the consumer price indicator – a deeply erroneous proposition that disproportionately affects our most sensitive communities and weakens our economy. At a time when Pennsylvania is already fighting to end the end because of the harmful federal budget policies and republican tariffs, the Republicans from Harrisburg were now voting for increasing the costs of maintaining even higher.
The only material thing that will come out of today’s session was a clear message that the Republicans in Harrisburg do not want to solve the crises in front of which Pennsylvania faced. After 30 years of unsuccessful leadership, I think that Pennsylvania deserve leadership in the Senate, which is ready to meet reality in our communities. “
