{"id":2254136,"date":"2024-05-28T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-house-expected-to-return-to-pass-largest-state-spending-plan-in-history\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:52:02","slug":"illinois-house-expected-to-return-to-pass-largest-state-spending-plan-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-house-expected-to-return-to-pass-largest-state-spending-plan-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipated Illinois House reunion to approve unprecedented state budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-house-expected-to-return-to-pass-largest-state-spending-plan-in-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254136&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Illinois House is predicted to reconvene on Tuesday to finalize a state spending \u200dplan \u200dexceeding $53 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">taxpayer money<\/a>. The session \u200bwas\u2064 scheduled to\u2063 conclude before the holiday weekend. The Illinois\u2063 House is set to meet\u200b again on Tuesday, \u2064aiming to finalize their plans on how to allocate more than $53 billion of taxpayer funds. The legislative session was initially supposed to adjourn before the holiday weekend.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 The Illinois House is expected to return Tuesday to finish up the plan on how the state will spend more than $53 billion in Illinois taxpayer money. <\/p>\n<p>The legislature was scheduled to adjourn Friday before the holiday weekend, but budget details failed to surface until it was too late and session was extended into contingency days. <\/p>\n<p>Sending representatives home late Saturday, House Speaker Chris Welch said the plan was coming together and they\u2019d return after the Memorial Day holiday. The Senate stayed and late Sunday they passed the plan. <\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Elgie Sims, D-Chicago, said the budget is balanced and fair. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation, investing in educating our children, protecting our most vulnerable, keeping our communities safe while investing and modernizing our infrastructure,\u201d Sims said. <\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Sally Turner said Gov. J.B. Pritzker is keeping his promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s keeping his promise to raise taxes on Illinois citizens by a billion dollars a year to fund the migrant crisis that he\u2019s created,\u201d Turner said. <\/p>\n<p>The total amount budgeted for non-citizen migrants in the budget is $971 million. <\/p>\n<p>The package includes a more than $53 billion spending plan and a tax increase bill worth more than $1 billion. There is also a measure carried by state Sen. Cristina Castro to zero out the state\u2019s 1% grocery tax. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd allows municipalities to impose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transit-searches-for-ways-to-replace-billions-in-federal-emergency-money\/\" title=\"Transit seeks alternatives for replacing federal emergency funds worth billions\">1% sales tax<\/a> on these items by ordinance or resolution,\u201d Castro said. <\/p>\n<p>The measure also removes the requirement that some local governments must receive referendum approval in order to impose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-50-of-u-s-households-paid-no-federal-income-taxes-in-2021\/\" title=\"More Than 50% of U.S. Households Paid No Federal Income Taxes in 2021\">local sales tax<\/a> and allows larger municipalities to increase the 911 surcharge, among other tax changes. <\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport, said the measure is dishonest. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd only in Springfield are we going to do a victory lap that really just reassigns the blame and responsibility to local municipalities and call it a tax cut,\u201d Chesney said. <\/p>\n<p>Others criticized the measure for giving more tax increase authority to local governments. <\/p>\n<p>The House has until May 31 to pass the plan with simple majorities. They\u2019re expected to return to the capitol Tuesday. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois House is set to reconvene on Tuesday to finalize a spending plan worth over $53 billion, funded by state taxpayers. 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