Progress Illinois: Critics Slam Rauner’s Budget Over ‘Morally Reprehensible’ Cuts
By Ellyn Fortino “Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s so-called “turnaround budget” does not call for increased taxes, but, instead, proposes significant cuts to higher education, Medicaid and other essential services as a means to tackle the state’s dire fiscal problems. During his first budget speech Wednesday before the Democrat-controlled state legislature, Rauner said...