The Illinois General Assembly has adopted a $53.1 billion state budget for the year that begins July 1, but it took the House until break of dawn Wednesday to get it done. Democrats hold a 78-40 advantage in the House and managed the minimum 60 votes on a tax package after multiple votes to lock up the proposal.
FILE - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks before President Joe Biden at an event with United Auto Workers at the Community Building Complex of Boone County, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Belvidere, Ill. The Illinois General Assembly has adopted a $53.1 billion state budget for the year that begins July 1, but it took the House until the break of dawn on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to get it done.
“I truly believe that this budget puts Illinois forward,” Gordon-Booth said. “Because we aren’t going to be about the politics of pitting vulnerable people against one another, we are going to be about the business of lifting all of our people up.” Republicans complained that Democrats are spending the state into future debt and blasted the acrimony of the final deliberations. Deputy Republican Leader Norine Hammond Macomb said budget-making in the House has become “an exercise in bullying and absolute power” by Democrats.
It also pays the state’s full obligation to its woefully underfunded pension funds and chips in an additional $198 million to the so-called rainy day fund to for an economic downturn.Rep. C.D.
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