{"id":2255594,"date":"2024-05-30T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pritzker-says-budget-passed-early-morning-because-everybody-wanted-to-go-home\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:02:35","slug":"pritzker-says-budget-passed-early-morning-because-everybody-wanted-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pritzker-says-budget-passed-early-morning-because-everybody-wanted-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Pritzker stated that the budget was approved early in the morning as everyone wanted to go home"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fpritzker-says-budget-passed-early-morning-because-everybody-wanted-to-go-home%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=2255594&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>Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is lauding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">budget<\/a>, despite Republican criticism of its late-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">night<\/a> approval process. The \u200bSenate passed the $53.1 billion budget late Sunday, with \u2064the House following suit early Wednesday\u200c morning. The budget includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-spokesman-celebrates-1-9-trillion-covid-relief-plan-erases-ny-budget-deficit\/\" title=\"Schumer Spokesman Celebrates: .9 Trillion COVID Relief Plan Erases NY Budget Deficit\">tax increases<\/a> of about $730 million on businesses. State Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Metropolis,\u2064 accused Democrats of breaking\u2062 their own rules. Great summary! It effectively captures the key points regarding Governor J.B. Pritzker&#8217;s support for the budget, Republican objections \u200bto the\u2064 late-night approval, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-inflation-is-only-the-beginning-the-real-problem-is-far-far-worse\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Inflation Is Only The Beginning. The Real Problem Is Far, Far Worse.\">budget amount<\/a>,\u2064 tax increases on businesses, and\u200b the accusation made by State Rep. Patrick Windhorst against Democrats.  <\/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 Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is heralding a budget that Republicans say was crammed down taxpayers throats in the dead of night.<\/p>\n<p>After the Senate approved the state budget package late in the evening Sunday, the House took the measure up in the early morning hours Wednesday. The measure spends $53.1 billion and increases a variety of taxes on businesses by about $730 million.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Metropolis, called out Democrats in the supermajority for violating their own rules by attempting to concur on one of the measures three times when rules only allow two attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it should be clear to everyone in this state what this supermajority is willing to do to ram a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-business-leaders-ask-officials-not-to-raise-taxes-as-city-recovers-from-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York City Business Leaders Ask Officials Not To Raise Taxes As City Recovers From Pandemic\">tax increase<\/a> down the throats of the citizens of Illinois at 4:30 in the morning,\u201d Windhorst said.<\/p>\n<p>The first two attempts to pass the revenue package failed as there weren\u2019t enough \u201cyes\u201d votes in the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Separately Wednesday, Illinois state Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Metropolis, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, discuss the state budgetBlueRoomStream, Illinois.gov<\/p>\n<p>Hours later during a news conference in his office in Springfield, Pritzker was asked if it\u2019s responsible to pass such a large spending plan so early in the morning when people are sleep deprived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they voted on it early in the morning was really a function of everybody wanted to go home,\u201d Pritzker said.<\/p>\n<p>The $53.1 billion spending plan is the most expensive taxpayer funded state budget in Illinois history, 32% more than the state spent in 2019. Pritzker said he will sign the package.<\/p>\n<p>The measure includes tax credits for music, live theater, the electric vehicle industry, giving to endowments and more. State Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, said the state funds all kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we are not doing the one thing that we should be doing and that\u2019s ensuring that our children who are in underperforming schools have an opportunity to get a scholarship to a school that will better prepare them for the future,\u201d Caulkins said.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker put blame on the legislature for not reauthorizing Invest in Kids, but criticized the original measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to have a tax credit like that, we ought to let the federal government cover much of the cost of it which we weren\u2019t doing,\u201d Pritzker said.<\/p>\n<p>The program was allowed to sunset last year. Before it ended, tens of thousands of families benefited.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker praises the $53.1 billion state budget despite Republican criticism of its late-night passage. 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