Illinois House Republicans

Democrats need to get serious about real budget negotiations instead of running the same failed playbook: ramming through a middle-of-the-night budget packed with tax hikes and pork projects for Democrat districts.

With Democrats in charge in Illinois, the tax hikes never end. They keep asking families to pay more, have failed to deliver real property tax relief this session, and still find new ways to spend more.

Illinois Democrats are doubling down on their tax, borrow, spend, repeat agenda, forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for their reckless borrowing and excessive spending.

Democrats are ramming through the largest budget in state history tonight, balanced on new taxes and raids from other accounts.

Holding subject matter hearings on the budget during the final day of session offers little transparency and gives lawmakers no meaningful time for review.

Democrats are once again waiting until the final hours of session to hold hearings on the budget and major legislation. Illinois families deserve transparency, and lawmakers deserve adequate time to read, review, and debate these massive bills before being forced to vote on the final day.

Democrats claim the budget has been available because they put the Governor's proposal into bills in the House and Senate. However, the real language is likely to be quite different and probably dropped in the final hour with little time for review. This is not transparency.