With state facing $3B deficit, GOP senators call on Gov. JB Pritzker to promise no tax hikes – Chicago Tribune/MSN

“We’ve balanced the budget every single year I’ve been speaker and some of those years, we’ve had very grim forecasts like we do now, and we still manage to produce budgets with surpluses, make additional payments to our pension obligations and we’ve received credit upgrades,” said House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch. “We’ll be taking the same responsible approach, going line by line, weighing priorities, whether it’s Chicago, (Chicago Public Schools), pensions, transit, all of those things we have to consider.”
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Riverbender
1 year ago

If they would just freeze spending meaning no more new programs, no more new idea and no more feel good vote buying programs some progress would be made. Please…just stop!

Isn’t Illinois Fun?
1 year ago

Spending addicts in charge of spending. Power addicts in charge of what fuels and retains their power. What a racket. What a club. This is how you rob a bank.

Fed up neighbor
1 year ago

Make cuts, layoffs, consolidation of duties. Welch stop lying about balanced budgets and surpluses you must think people are stupid and foolish like you.

Last edited 1 year ago by Fed up neighbor
I am not a robot
1 year ago

Just like Pritzker, Welch claims a balanced budget on the back of the COVID federal funds that pulled Illinois out of the hole. No spending cuts and we’re right back where we started with these spend happy libs.

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