Illinois lawmakers concur on fix to hastily passed budget

Published June 17, 2021 12:30pm ET



Illinois’ governor corrected an error in the $42 billion state budget lawmakers passed, but Republicans say he missed an opportunity to nix legislator pay raises and Democratic pork projects.

Democrats rushed a budget through in the final hours of regular session last month so fast they didn’t catch what Gov. J.B. Pritzker called as a “scrivener’s error,” omitting effective dates for the spending.

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