OLYMPIA — Ahead of next week’s full operating budget proposal, Senate Democratic budget leaders released their new revenue proposal for the 2025-27 operating budget. “We’ve spent months discussing our budget, learned about how damaging an all-cuts budget might be, and have done the hard work to scrub the budget for savings and efficiencies,” said Sen. Noel Frame (D-Seattle), vice chair of the Senate Ways & Means Committee for Finance. “Now, honoring our responsibility to Washingtonians, we are releasing this proposal for new revenue. Rather than balance our budget entirely through devastating cuts or doubling-down on our regressive tax code on the backs of working families, we’re asking the wealthiest among us to finally do their part and pay what they owe ...
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Noel Frame (she/her) has represented the people of the 36th Legislative District as their state senator since January 2023, after having served the district as state representative beginning in January 2016.
Noel is an award-winning legislator, having been honored more than 15 times for her work advocating for youth involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, expanding services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges, championing economic development, and fixing the state’s upside-down tax code. She takes on many of the toughest challenges facing our state – reforming our criminal legal system, building more affordable housing, strengthening and investing in the diverse communities that make up Washington state, balancing our tax code, and more.
Read Sen. Frame’s full biography here.
