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State Leaders, Lawmakers React to $55.2B State Budget that Passed Just Before Midnight Deadline
- Illinois lawmakers passed a $55.2 billion state budget late Saturday for Fiscal Year 2026 covering July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026.
- The budget reflects nearly a 40 percent increase in spending since 2019 and includes about $1 billion in new taxes on working families and businesses.
- Key provisions include funding for K-12 schools, public transit investments including Chicago-Rockford rail service, and a 2.5% wage increase for state troopers effective next year.
- Critics condemned the budget’s size and passage without bipartisan input, while supporters highlighted its balanced nature and focus on fiscal responsibility without raising income or sales taxes.
- The budget signals ongoing fiscal challenges and political division yet aims to support economic growth, public services, and regional development across Illinois.
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Rep. Davis responds to passage of Ill. budget
In response to the passage of the Fiscal Year 26 budget, State representative Jed Davis (R-Yorkville) released the following statement: “Illinoisans should be absolutely appalled by the FY26 budget. Not just in content, but in the way this $55 billion budget was passed,” said Davis. “Once again, this budget was passed with minimal review time,...
House Passes $55.8B State Budget
HARTFORD, CT — The two-year, $55.8 billion budget that passed out of the Connecticut House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote late Monday night remains within the state budget cap despite increasing spending by $2.63 billion over the next two fiscal years.
New taxes on sports bets, nicotine products as Democrats pass $55.2B state budget
SPRINGFIELD – Giving almost no time for public review, Illinois Democrats pushed through a $55.2 billion budget for next fiscal year late Saturday, bolstering coffers with new taxes on sports bets, nicotine products and businesses.
State leaders, lawmakers react to $55.2B state budget that passed just before midnight deadline – WGNTV (Chicago)
Said state Sen. Chris Balkema, "Once again, Illinois Democrats are hitting hardworking families with new taxes to cover up their own failures. ... This isn’t about fixing roads or improving transit access for all Illinoisans. It’s about forcing people in communities like ours and across Illinois to pay for a transit system many don’t use. While political leaders reward mismanagement in Chicago, hardworking families across the state are left payi…
Illinois lawmakers pass $55 billion state budget Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) -- Shortly after state legislators passed the fiscal year 2026 state budget, reactions poured in from politicians who were split down party lines. Many Republicans shared the same sentiment that the new budget was "bloated" with what they felt were tax increases that hurt working-class Illinoians. The state Democrats, on the other hand, rejoiced over the budget, with many claiming it would help fund much-needed entities such …
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