Ted joined Tom Miller to talk about the need for a DOGE in Illinois. Ted said he would start with Illinois’ overall budget, then dive into the spending on education and especially Chicago Public Schools, then Human Services, then onto the number of bloated, duplicative local governments.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- One big example of why Illinois badly needs a DOGE of its own
- The next absurd bill from Illinois’ legislature: Removing student test scores from teacher evaluations
- Gov. Pritzker walks back his “no tax increase” comments…is a hike on the way?
- No matter what Pritzker or the Tribune says, Illinois’ NAEP education results are abysmal
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Although this bill has virtually no chance of being passed, check out HB 1937, recently introduced by Rep. Jed Davis, which attempts to create something kinda sorta like a DOGE process for state agencies: https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1937&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=159580&SessionID=114&GA=104 This bill would require the Auditor General and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) to work together on reviewing the entire Illinois Administrative Code to determine how many state “mandates and restrictions” affect private sector entities and/or local governments (AI can be used for this purpose), then get all agencies to cut back or consolidate enough rules to reduce them to no more than… Read more »
I heard a rumor that the Pritzker family is up to their necks in USAID. Perhaps that’s worth investigating. FOIA?
No rumors, please.
Emailed a link earlier to an X broadcast from Tom Renz with Terry Newsome from Chicago. He was talking about money laundering and how USDOT supplied the money for the cooling buses used for arriving illegals by classing it as maintenance money. This is the kind of deep digging needed in IL.