Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said it before: state government has been hollowed out. But the state keeps spending more and more every year with next fiscal year’s budget supported by billions of dollars in borrowing.

“This is not a time for governments, state governments particularly, to be cutting services, especially a government like ours where agencies have been hollowed out over a number of years,” Pritzker said.

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