Governor Wolf is once again under intense pressure to end the seven month long budget stalemate. This comes after Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader, Jake Corman, suggested on Tuesday, that if the Democratic Governor, Tom Wolf, wants to resolve the situation and get the bipartisan budget agreement past the House of Representatives, he will have to give in to the changes requested by the opposition, writes Marc Levy for the Associated Press, published by Daily Local News.

The comments were made by the Republican Senator following the return of the Republican-controlled Senate to the Capitol for the first voting session of the New Year and also marked the first full year of Wolf’s governorship.

Earlier last month some progress was being made on a bipartisan budget before the deal collapsed in the House later in the month and the Wolf administration finally suggested that the Governor was done negotiating.

“If the House isn’t on board, they’re not on board,” Corman said Tuesday. “We’ve got to get them on board somehow. We need to have discussions and get there. None of us taking our marbles and going home is going to get this resolved.”

The Wolf administration suggested in a statement on Tuesday that the Republican majority leaders should allow for votes on the bipartisan budget deal, while on the same day Wolf expressed his continued support for the deal which he does not consider dead. He also seemed open to some changes to the deal, if they prove necessary.

“We have to get this right and whether it’s exactly the way the compromise was before the holidays or something slightly different, I believe we are making progress toward a budget that is in balance and that actually addresses the needs of Pennsylvania,” Wolf told reporters during a public appearance in Harrisburg.

The deal in question asked for a $30.8 billion spending package, which is an increase of 6 percent, financed from an increase of over $1 billion in taxes which would insure a record increase in aid for public schools as well as help close the long-term deficit,

While the deal still has the backing of Senate leaders, in the face of conservative opposition, House Republican leaders turned against it. However, the Wolf administration believes that they have secured enough of the rank-and-file GOP support to pass the deal in the House if a vote is called for.