Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie released the following statement after Governor JB Pritzker delivered his annual State of the State and Budget Address to the General Assembly today:
“Illinois families deserve an honest and transparent government – not one that increases spending by $2 billion and masks a $3.2 billion deficit on paper, setting taxpayers us for a potential tax hike on May 31.
“I promised at the start of the year that House Republicans would expose and oppose poor public policy, and this budget proposal is just that. It won’t grow our tax base; it will continue to punish businesses and hardworking Illinoisans.”