Pritzker defends call for federal bailout despite budget surplus – Center Square

Gov. JB Pritzker explained, “When you say there’s a surplus at the end, it’s a mild surplus. Not totally insubstantial, more than $100 million, but that’s in a $41.6 billion budget. This is a budget that is balanced but balanced in a way, unfortunately, that doesn’t really provide what all of people need across the state of Illinois but it’s the best we can do in this very tight time.”