Proposed state budget avoids tax increases, school cuts, but still looking for votes
Educators, prosecutors and providers of health and human services cheered Senate Democrats on Tuesday for their plan to rebalance the state budget without new cuts to schools, colleges and major social service programs.
Now all Senate leaders have to do is round up 25 of the 49 senators to approve it.
"Not yet," Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said when asked Tuesday if he's got enough votes to pass what he cobbled together as the chamber's chief budget writer.