Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Democratic legislative leaders reach deal on $50 billion budget
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivers his annual budget address in front of House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford to a joint session of the General Assembly on Feb. 15, 2023, at the Illinois State Capitol.
The cost of the Medicaid-style program that covers immigrants 42 and older who are in the country without legal permission or who have green cards but haven’t completed a five-year waiting period and therefore don’t qualify for the traditional insurance program for the poor will continue to put pressure on the state budget.The spending plan Pritzker proposed in February pegged the cost of the program at $220 million, but his administration later increased that estimate to $1.
“The Senate and the House have agreed to give us the tools to manage the program properly,” Pritzker said, adding that it “allows us to provide health care for the people who are now on the program and make sure that we’re continuing the program going forward, but in a budget friendly way so that everybody gets the healthcare they need.”
Some Democratic lawmakers also had been pushing to increase spending in other areas, including funding for elementary and high schools. The budget deal would increase overall school funding by $350 million over the current year, an annual goal established in state law, but doesn’t go beyond that as some had hoped.
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