Federal COVID-19 relief going to Illinois debt rather than business relief – Illinois Policy

Gov. JB Pritzker and Comptroller Susana Mendoza are right that eliminating short-term debt is the most fiscally responsible use of Illinois’ share of the $350 billion state and local aid in the American Rescue Plan. But that short-term debt was the result of  reckless budget adopted shortly after the pandemic began and the governor’s consistent opposition to structural fiscal reforms.