After trash talk, real budget haggling in Olympia

Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Jul 1, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Leaders from both parties will huddle behind closed doors this week in an effort to hammer out a budget for the 2015-2017 biennium. State lawmakers need to reach agreement about how many dollars to spend and on what and Jerry Cornfield of The Everett Herald is not feeling optimistic given</p></h2>
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            <p>Leaders from both parties will huddle behind closed doors this week in an effort to hammer out a budget for the 2015-2017 biennium. State lawmakers need to reach agreement about how many dollars to spend and on what and <a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150407/NEWS01/150409332/After-lots-of-trash-talk-budget-talk-will-get-real-in-Olympia?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Jerry Cornfield of The Everett Herald</a> is not feeling optimistic given the differences between the parties on taxes, spending, pay raises for state workers, social service cuts (we could go on) and the looming end-of-session (April 26) deadline: "There are fewer than 20 days to reach a deal and avoid a special session of the Legislature," writes Cornfield, "and a deal doesn't seem probable given the differences in partisan budgets passed by House Democrats and Senate Republicans and the volleys of criticism exchanged by their authors." Gulp.</p>
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Leaders from both parties will huddle behind closed doors this week in an effort to hammer out a budget for the 2015-2017 biennium. State lawmakers need to reach agreement about how many dollars to spend and on what and Jerry Cornfield of The Everett Herald is not feeling optimistic given the differences between the parties on taxes, spending, pay raises for state workers, social service cuts (we could go on) and the looming end-of-session (April 26) deadline: "There are fewer than 20 days to reach a deal and avoid a special session of the Legislature," writes Cornfield, "and a deal doesn't seem probable given the differences in partisan budgets passed by House Democrats and Senate Republicans and the volleys of criticism exchanged by their authors." Gulp.

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,