Event without the proposed budget for the next fiscal year, there are significant budget shortfalls in the current fiscal year with a few more months remaining.
How lawmakers and the Governor deal with the current shortfall is still unknown. Illinois News Network.
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Governor Rauner has been in negotiations with legislative leaders for weeks saying they don’t want to go from crisis to crisis. Several programs have indicated they are short hundreds of millions of dollars in the current fiscal year that wraps up at the end of June.