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Maybe he’ll propose a real budget this time?

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* With all the talk of the Senate’s grand plan and the attorney general’s legal motion on employee pay, we may be forgetting that the governor’s budget address is just two weeks from today. So, this excerpt from a Tribune story today is worth posting…

In 2015, Rauner offered a budget that contained a $2.2 billion hole because of proposed pension savings that the governor eventually acknowledged might not pass constitutional muster. Last year, he offered lawmakers the choice of working with him to cut the budget or letting him do it himself. He did not spell out how he would close a hole of at least $3.5 billion.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:08 am

Comments

===Last year, he offered lawmakers the choice of working with him to cut the budget or letting him do it himself.===

Huh? Once a budget is passed, he has full discretion not to spend money that was allocated. All a budget is is the authority to spend money. Any budget is at the mercy of the chief executive. Maybe someone should tell the governor that he is just that, the chief executive. But then he would have to take those arrows that he claimed he would be able to take.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:15 am
Magic 8 Ball says: “Highly Doubtful”

Comment by GOPgal Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:15 am
Well… IPI just gave him the “blueprint”;)

Comment by Anon221 Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:21 am
I think was the gov’s office that gave IPI the “blueprint.”

Comment by My New Handle Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:25 am
Katrina, who claimed both of Rauner’s proposed budgets were balanced, should read her own paper more often. /snark

Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:30 am
Did the IPI’s magic beans plan take into account the cost of state’s contribution to Social Security system of employees removed from state pension plan? Serious question. I didn’t study it.

Comment by GOPgal Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:33 am
I anticipate we’ll get the worst non-budget yet.

Comment by Earnest Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:34 am
My New Handle- Now, now… you know Rauner doesn’t get involved in “politics”

Comment by Anon221 Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:37 am
im guessin he may call in sick for the day of the budget adress

Comment by theq Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:38 am
I’m not holding my breath.

Comment by Gruntled University Employee Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:41 am
No way he is going to get 2.2 billion from pension theft

Comment by Foster brooks Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 11:46 am
My guess is that the grand compromise will fall through and that the Speaker will put through a house version that will pass both chambers. Then the Governor will see that budget on the 27th or 28th of February. Either the Governor signs it or shuts down the state.

Comment by Mouthy Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 12:35 pm
Too busy droppin’ gs to draft a balanced budget.

Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 12:49 pm
Time to get to the budget makin’

Cuttin’ and spendin’

Comment by siriusly Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 12:50 pm
Ohio? Knows more than pastors living & working every day in Chicago.

‘Great idea’. This from the guy who said he’d solve the gun violence in Chicago in One Week back in August. Still waiting for action, unless it was another lie.

Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 1:02 pm
Maybe we should just let the Madigan Family continue to run the State. They have done such a crack job so far.

Comment by Brandy1212 Wednesday, Feb 1, 17 @ 9:34 pm