Illinois spending priorities strained by ongoing migrant care concerns
Illinois Officials Prioritize Spending Amid Budget Pressures
With limited Illinois tax dollars, state officials are facing the challenge of balancing their priorities amidst ongoing budget pressures. One of the major concerns is the allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars for migrant care.
Highlighting the taxpayer-funded $250 million Smart Start early childhood education initiative, Governor J.B. Pritzker emphasized the need to carefully manage future spending in light of these pressures.
“And, if we don’t have enough resources for everything that everybody wants, what can we look to do in the future or what should we stop doing in order to make sure that we’re balancing expenditures with revenues,”
Pritzker expressed these thoughts during an event in Rochester, underlining the importance of finding a balance between expenditures and revenues.
State Representative Coffey acknowledged the difficulty of balancing programs like Smart Start with the ongoing expenditure on migrant care. He raised concerns about the future of such programs, especially considering the financial constraints faced by the General Assembly after the impact of COVID-19.
“As we go forward into the General Assembly and money becomes tighter and tighter and tighter after we’ve gone through COVID and all that, what are we going to do for these types of programs, and this migrant crisis, having gone down there, it’s a national crisis that has to be addressed by the president of the United States,”
Illinois legislators are set to return to Springfield on February 6, with Governor Pritzker scheduled to deliver his State of the State and budget address on February 21.
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