WATCH: Record child deaths fuel tearful House floor debate over supplemental budget

(The Center Square) – Republicans in the Washington State House of Representatives pushed back with all they had on Saturday, offering amendments and objections to majority Democrats’ supplemental operating budget.

But even with five Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with all Republicans in opposition to the budget, the majority party had more than enough votes to push it through the chamber, 52-41.

The nearly $80 billion spending plan adds $2 billion in new spending, and depends on billions in new taxes, and passage of an income tax opponents argue is unconstitutional.

The budget also relies on about $4 billion dollars from the LEOFF Plan 1 police and firefighter pension account and drains hundreds of millions from the state’s emergency rainy...