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Gov. Tom Wolf announces he'll exercise his powers to veto line items from the state budget.

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Editor's note: This story was updated to correct the amount of the budget lawmakers sent to Gov. Wolf.

Calling the budget sent to him by lawmakers "ridiculous" and "an exercise in stupidity," Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf announced he would use line-item veto to strike out portions of the $30.3 billion spending plan approved by lawmakers.

"All of us should be outraged at the garbage GOP leaders have tried to dump," Wolf said.

Saying the budget doesn't balance, and the amount contained in it for education doesn't meet the needs of the Commonwealth's schools, Wolf said he would veto the budget appropriation for schools, while releasing money on an emergency basis to keep schools open.

The budget, with line-item veto, would authorize spending $23.399 billion.

Wolf's speech was full of harsh words for lawmakers:

"They ran off - pretty quickly at that - before they finished their job and they left us with a real holiday mess."