 I'm offering a budget proposal that represents a responsible solution to our deficit challenge and a different approach from the way things have been done in Harrisburg for almost a generation. Let's start here. In my proposed budget, there are no broad-based tax increases. My budget protects the investments we've made in education, in senior services, in fighting the scourge of opioids and in growing Pennsylvania's economy. This budget goes much further. In fact, it contains the largest cuts to and consolidations of government bureaucracy in our history. By identifying specific programs that could work more efficiently and others that are no longer working at all, this budget proposes reforms that, altogether, will save taxpayers more than $2 billion. That's right. I believe that we can leave the frustrating politics of all behind us and work together to build a brighter future for all Pennsylvanians. And it is in that spirit that I invite this legislature to join me in continuing to turn the page on the broken politics that have held our Commonwealth back and choose a different path forward, one in which Democrats and Republicans work together to reimagine and reinvent our state government. To recommit to our schools, to our seniors, and to our most vulnerable citizens. And to rebuild our middle class.