Illinois House passes $53.1B budget with tax changes, migrant funding and more ...Middle East

The Illinois House passed a $53.1 billion state budget early Wednesday morning, approving a plan that is $400 million more than Gov. J.B. Pritzker proposed in February and raises taxes and makes other tax code changes to generate $1.2 billion to fund it. Just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, as discussions lasted well into the overnight hours, lawmakers voted to pass the budget with a 65-45 vote. The budget, which was passed by the Senate over the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, now heads to Pritzker’s desk, where it awaits his signature. “This budget is balanced, responsible and fair,” House Speaker Pro Tempore Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat, told the Executive Committee. “It i

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