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House Leaders React To Stopgap Budget

It's one down, one to go for the Illinois General Assembly in striking a stopgap budget deal.

 

In a strong statement of compromise, the Illinois House has voted 105-4 for the budget plan, sending the Senate the final pieces of a budget deal that would increase funding for schools by more than $500 million and keep the state operating for six months.

 

The Senate has already voted on pieces of the stopgap spending bill. House Minority Leader Jim Durkin summed up the feelings of lawmakers and voters.

 

 

House Speaker Michael Madigan says the key to the deal.... the absence of Governor Rauner's turnaround agenda.

 

 

The partial budget plan locks in money for prisons, universities and social services. 

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