Rising steel demand, expected outages at other mills owned by the company will enable expanded use of the Granite City Works. Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
And here comes the green crowd, backed by Pritzker, crying about the environment and some Al Sharpton type big mouth making sure the workforce is 51% diverse, along with other SJW types that sit around all day waiting for Trump to do something that that they can leverage to their advantage or shit on if they can’t. I honestly don’t know why DT tries to do anything positive for IL.
Thank you President Trump
This is great news for downstate as the restart happens without a bundle of State money included in the deal. Good union well paying jobs will return to the area stimulating the whole local economy just as they did years ago after Trump visited the plant after imposing steel tariffs during his first term. Congratulations to all of us and now if we could just restart a coal fired power plant or two we might return to lower electric bills while providing jobs and needed tax revenues to our communities but, I know, Pritzker’s battery plants instead.