Governor JB Pritzker will present his eighth budget on Wednesday amid tremendous uncertainty over federal funding.
Capitol News Illinois reports Pritzker’s team has already begun setting expectations that budget requests will not be entirely fulfilled this year.
Illinois faces a 2-billion-dollar deficit in the coming fiscal year.
But constant changes to federal funding make that number a moving target.
Progressive Democrats are hoping the state will implement new wealth taxes to fund social services that have been gutted at the federal level.
Republicans want Pritzker to limit new spending and not resort to tax hikes.
