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The $50.6 billion state budget approved by the Illinois Senate late Thursday includes $42.5 million to provide services for migrants arriving from the country’s southern border. That provision emerged earlier that day following an ask from Mayor Brandon Johnson; however, his administration had pressed for more, and the $42.5 million total would be available to counties and towns statewide, rather than just Chicago.
Summary and audio linked here.
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Summary and audio linked here.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
Podcast link is here.
Health care spending does not equate to medical provision.
Ask medical professionals in Illinois, if you can find any remaining who aren’t ‘stuck’.
Those who are ‘stuck’ are practicing so defensively that those ‘entitlement’ holders (due to billions paid to Centene, (look up Pritzker Centene investment) may simply give up waiting or be confused about pre-authorization, or have the few remaining volunteers in lllinois pay out of pocket for them.
That’s a lot of money for Illinois to spend on migrants who have intentionally broken federal immigration laws. Migrants get more government-paid assistance in Illinois from our state, county, and city government than gainfully-employed tax-payers, and established legal resident social-welfare recipients.