U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski has introduced two bills so far. The first, if passed, would provide businesses that hire apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship workers a $1,500 federal tax credit. The second would designate the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot a national monument. Both measures have Republican co-sponsors and were previous initiatives of former Rep. Rodney Davis, whose district boundaries included many of the same areas Budzinski now represents.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.