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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget

Published July 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 10:09

We have reduced crime across Pennsylvania by 16% and homicides are down 39% across our Commonwealth. We've put nearly 2,000 more police on the beat. All across our commonwealth, Graduation rates and test scores are up while truancy is down. And more young people are finding their passion in the trades and through a program in their high school, We've spurred record economic growth. (10:09–10:14)

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“We have reduced crime across Pennsylvania by 16% and homicides are down 39% across our Commonwealth.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 09:54-10:03
“We've got the only growing economy in the Northeast.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 10:28-10:32
“We've created with our private sector partners in Pennsylvania, more jobs than all but two states in the entire country.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 10:42-10:51
“Over the last three years, we've paved 20,500 miles of roads and repaired nearly 1900 state and local bridges.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 17:04-17:15
“A budget isn't just a series of numbers on a spreadsheet. It's our statement of values and principles.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 04:51-04:58
“This is the fourth year in a row where despite working with one of the only divided legislatures in the entire country, we stayed at the…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 08:16-08:37
“252 members voted on this budget and 211 voted yes. Only 41 members voted no.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 08:54-09:05
“We've put nearly 2,000 more police on the beat.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 10:02-10:08
“We've done more economic development in the last two years than the prior 15 years combined.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 10:22-10:29
“Our economy grew at 4.5.4% this past year.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 11:37-11:43
“This budget and those revenues allowed us to make important investments and still have an $8 billion budget surplus.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 11:56-12:06
“This is the fourth budget in a row where we cut taxes and never raise them.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 12:08-12:14
“We're investing this year $11.8 billion in public education.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 12:22-12:28
“We've grown special education funding together by 50, 15%.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 12:54-12:59
“We're investing $193 million in workforce development and CTE, a 60% increase from where we were just four years ago.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 12:59-13:11
“A mandatory recess for K to 5th grade all throughout Pennsylvania. 30 minutes for our kids to play and spend time together.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 13:37-13:48
“We're also covering $78 million of debt for Pashe, which enables them to shift those dollars into more funding for our faculty, more funding…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 14:14-14:29
“This budget increases our commitment as well to student teachers and invest another 30 million.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 15:21-15:29
“We increase from $30 million to $40 million an investment in these student teachers.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 15:28-15:35
“We're investing $5 million more in recruitment and retention bonuses for childcare workers.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 15:55-16:01
“We have new funding for an initiative we created last year to train more nurses and provide more tuition assistance for nursing students in…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 16:14-16:24
“This budget builds on that success and drives out an additional $775 million from the motor license fund to fund shovel ready projects to…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 17:16-17:34
“This budget, for the first time ever, makes available $125 million to be able to provide capital for life sciences, start startups, fund…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 18:07-18:22
“Our fruit growers right now are particularly struggling to meet their bottom lines after one of the worst freezes in the history of our…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 18:43-18:53
“This budget delivers a $10 million lifeline to these farmers.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 19:29-19:35
“This budget also solves a problem folks have talked about for years by enabling Secretary Arkoosh, who joins us today, and the Department of…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 19:38-19:53
“Last year, 988 handled more than 145,000 calls from Pennsylvanians who were just crying out for help.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 20:20-20:29
“This budget provides dedicated state funding for 988 to ensure that when Pennsylvanians pick up the phones to answer, they can get the help…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 20:29-20:41
“We came together to deliver a much needed $12 million increase for rape crisis centers all across this commonwealth.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 21:34-21:45
“This budget does a lot to strengthen our child welfare system by driving out an additional $50 million to ensure counties have the resources…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 22:05-22:19
“It invests in protecting our seniors with increased funding for the Department of aging's monitoring system, CAPE, which holds the AAAs…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 22:28-22:39
“We are providing more support and stability to nursing homes across our commonwealth by increasing minimum reimbursement rates.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 22:45-22:55
“This is the year when we finally came together to give [retired cops, teachers, firefighters, and state workers] a cost of living adjustment…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 23:41-23:51
“George and retirees like him will see an additional $300 a month. That's 3,600 bucks a year back in George's pocket.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 24:34-24:44
“We came together early on to deliver the largest tax cut for seniors in two decades.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 25:08-25:14
“I was absolutely adamant that there would be no cuts to Medicaid services, and there are none in this budget.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 26:24-26:32
“We insisted that every single dollar of adequacy funding for our students and our schools be in this budget. And every single dollar is…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 26:37-26:47
“The legislature ultimately made a decision that [skill games regulation] was not going to be part of this budget.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 33:10-33:15
“The deadline for action [on skill games] is October 13th.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 33:14-33:18
“The Pennsylvania State Police is ready to enforce the law when that deadline hits on October 13th.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 33:23-33:29
“I think the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made the right decision [on second degree murder law].”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 33:42-33:47
“I believe that our second degree murder law was unconstitutional.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 33:46-33:51
“The Senate passed something [regarding second degree murder law].”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 33:56-33:58
“The House has made clear what their priorities are [regarding second degree murder law].”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 33:57-34:00
“I'm hopeful that we can get there by July 24th [regarding a compromise on second degree murder law].”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 34:22-34:28
“This majority has 102 members in it.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 34:36-34:40
“Every single time, they put up 102 votes to do important things like funding our schools and focusing on public safety and economic…”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 34:53-35:04
“I just signed [the legislation to put more money back in the pockets of workers] into law.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget | Uploaded July 13, 2026 | 35:19-35:22