EconomyFinding
Illinois should cut total state spending below this year's level.
Illinois' general budget has grown to roughly $55 billion a year, up from about $34 billion in 2019. Cutting total spending would require reductions in areas such as schools, Medicaid, pensions or state operations.
JB Pritzker
Prudence demanded that this year's budget proposal seeks a discretionary spending increase that is less than one half of one percent.
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