Despite less than a week remaining for the Washington State Legislature, Governor Bob Ferguson is still not embracing the $12 billion package presented to balance the state's $16 billion shortfall.

Democrats in the Washington State Senate pushed through a massive $12 billion tax package over the weekend, despite an explicit call from Ferguson to scale back the level of taxes.

"There's a lot of word-smithing going on right now. The governor and his supporters have said that they're not keen on the so-called wealth tax, which is an increase in the expansion of the state's capital gains tax," Rep. Jim Walsh, the Chair of the state’s Republican Party, said on "Seattle's Morning News" on KIRO Newsradio.