Another year, another budget proposal — and another long wait.
In what’s become a springtime rite in the Illinois Capitol, state legislators on Wednesday were bumping up against their self-imposed deadline to approve an annual spending plan, as Democrats wrangle over a sports betting tax hike, retailer discounts and other key revenue proposals floated by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Lawmakers needed to file a budget bill by Wednesday night in order to wrap up the legislative session Friday as originally scheduled…
Pritzker’s staff and leaders of both chambers were still hammering out numbers into Wednesday evening within their Democratic supermajorities, where some members have pushed back against tax increases recommended in Pritzker’s $52.7 billion budget proposal.
