Senate Republicans Make Haphazard Last Ditch Budget Offer

With the pressure mounting and opposition starting to crumble, the State Senate Republicans have put forth a new budget deal offer.

In a desperate attempt to not look powerless though, they’ve tacked on prison and construction reforms into the bill. As these issues haven’t really had any debate, it’s a very foolish move and plays right into Democrats hands. In exchange, they’d still only provide 5 votes for it.

And it looks like they’ve also given up on wasting more state money on religious schools and scrapping the all day every day kindergarten requirement.