Maryland Republicans pushed back against what they said was an air of inevitability Tuesday around a special session to raise taxes after the General Assembly adjourned last week with a budget deal in disarray.

At a news conference in Annapolis, House Republicans charged that Democrats’ broken budget talks exposed that even without a planned tax hike on six-figure earners, Maryland will still afford to let overall spending rise in the budget year beginning in July.

The Democratic-led General Assembly adjourned April 9, having approved a spending plan, but not a package of tax hikes on high earners that

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