On May 31, Democrats pushed through a $55.2 billion budget with $1 billion in new tax hikes. They did this by circumventing procedure and undermining the Illinois Constitution's requirement that every bill is read into the official record three times on three different days. Democrats took an empty "shell" bill and tacked on a 3,363-page amendment filled with tax and fee increases to fund their bloated budget. There was almost no time to read it or debate it.
I have filed a legal challenge to the rushed and non-transparent process used to pass the budget. Click here to view the lawsuit. https://senatorchesney.com/chesney-lawsuit-against-budget-passage/