OLYMPIA, Wash — Senate budget writers want to mostly rely on cuts and the state's emergency savings account to make up for an estimated $1.8 billion deficit in the current two-year budget.
Supplemental budget proposals include increasing spending by about $1.5 billion and withdrawing up to $880 million from the state’s rainy-day fund.
In his annual State of the State address, Pritzker, a likely 2028 presidential contender, denounced the “cruelty and rage” of ...