It has become a tired cliche, insanity being defined as doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.

And they’re doing it again in Harrisburg just three weeks before the deadline to adopt a state budget for fiscal year 2016-17, which begins July 1.

Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has proposed a $33.3 billion budget that would boost school spending and require more than $2.7 billion in new or increased taxes.

That’s $1.2 billion more than Wolf proposed for the current 2015-16 budget — a plan the Republican Legislature rejected and replaced with a $30 billion budget, delivered nine months late and without the governor’s signature.

Predictably, the Legislature has rejected Wolf’s proposal for 2016-17, too. To expect otherwise would be, well, insane. Wolf is making essentially the same proposal this year that failed the previous year, only with another $1.2 billion added to it.

There are other added pressures working against the governor as well, including the sting of his failed proposal still fresh from a year ago, resulting in the longest delay in a Pennsylvania budget in at least 60 years. The resulting interruption of cash flow to county agencies and services created panic borrowing and a depletion of cash reserves for countless agencies.

These agencies eventually got their state dollars, but they were not reimbursed for interest they paid on loans or lost on depleted investments. Another lengthy budget delay this year could again financially damage many of these vital services.

Then there’s the political pressure this year. All 203 seats in the state House are up for election in November, as are half of the 50 state Senate seats. With anti-incumbent sentiments running high, those in office are sensitive to their core responsibility to get a budget done on deadline — and without dramatic tax increases.

Few politicians, not even Wolf’s fellow Democrats, are likely to support $2.7 billion in new or increased taxes during an election year. Both parties are looking for alternative revenue sources, including a tax on legalized online gambling and another dollar-a-pack tax on cigarettes.

Even so, the same pattern has emerged this year as last — there have been few negotiation sessions between the governor and House leadership, and no counterproposal yet from Republicans in the House.

There’s a lot of work yet to be done on the budget, little evidence of any progress, and officially there are just 23 days left to get the work done.

Or, at the risk of sounding cliched, a business-as-usual June in Harrisburg.