Acting Sec. of Health Alison Beam and Director of the PA Emergency Management Agency Randy Padfield will co-chair the task force that also includes state Sens. Ryan Aument and Art Haywood, plus state Reps. Bridget Kosierowski and Tim O’Neal.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s $37.8 billion budget proposal calls for raising the state’s personal income tax from 3.07% to 4.49% for the state’s top-third earners, according to the Wolf administration.
On Friday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced his intention to nominate Alison Beam to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Dr. Wendy Braund as Interim Acting Physician General.
The GOP Senator described his decision to not seek office in 2022 as “not a political one,” but rather a personal one, and added that he will serve out the remainder of his term before returning to the private sector.
Gov. Tom Wolf described state Rep. Russ Diamond’s press release as “nothing more than a thinly veiled attack on the LGBTQ community” and Sec. Rachel Levine. Diamond responded in a release of his own calling for Wolf to fire Levine, then resign as governor.
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe and 24 of his House GOP colleagues introduced five articles of impeachment against Gov. Tom Wolf over his response to the coronavirus pandemic, on Tuesday.