The Washington House has unanimously approved a sixteen-and-a-half billion-dollar supplemental transportation budget focused on maintenance and preservation, without new bonding. Senate Bill 6005, the supplemental transportation budget, keeps spending within existing resources while adding three-hundred-thirty-five […]
by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State StandardFebruary 27, 2026 Washington Democrats’ controversial income tax bill emerged from a state House panel Friday looking much different than when it arrived. But it hadn’t changed enough to win […]
OLYMPIA… The Senate’s majority Democrats today adopted a supplemental operating budget that would raid Washington’s rainy-day fund and other accounts to push state spending above $80 billion for the remainder of the 2025-27 biennium. Republican budget leaders are […]
Senator John Braun explains how the proposed income tax is built into four‑year budget planning, bringing in nearly $3 billion before it would be collected in 2029. He raises concerns about implementation, including the need to […]
Olympia Unfiltered: The Weekly Hit is a short, weekly audio segment featuring a House Republican lawmaker discussing what happened in Olympia that week that the people of Washington need to know about. Each episode focuses on: […]
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