A budget proposal from Governor Bruce Rauner is out of balance according to Senate Democrats. 
They say Rauner’s proposed spending plan is more than $4 billion more than expected revenues.
They say Rauner’s proposed spending plan is more than $4 billion more than expected revenues.
Democrats note in order for spending to match revenues every agency needs to cut spending by 20 percent. Democrat Senator Patricia Van Pelt says recently in a committee she asked the Director of Public Health where a cut would come from.
Van Pelt feels it’s upsetting that Rauner isn’t addressing the realities of the state budget.
Democrats have been frustrated recently when the Governor seems to kill the Senate’s grand bargain and then refuses to address the cuts needed to balance a budget without a tax increase.
