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Pritzker signs $46 billion state budget, which GOP says is filled with election-year gimmicks

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Gov. JB Pritzker signs documents Tuesday.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois governor has signed a $46 billion budget plan that provides $1.8 billion in tax breaks and direct payments aimed at softening the blow of inflation, a plan Republicans derided as an election-year ploy.

The budget signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker for the fiscal year that starts July 1 also makes substantial investments in debt and savings backed by tax revenues virtually no one predicted a year ago amid a worldwide coronavirus pandemic.


With inflation nationally at about 7%, the highest in 45 years, Pritzker, a Democrat, called for sales and gas tax adjustments and property tax rebates to save consumers $970 million.

GOP lawmakers have accused Democrats who control the Legislature of pandering, but Pritzker said they have done little to help.

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