D-52 House: McSweeney
The state of Illinois’ fiscal problems are well-documented.
For years, the governor and the General Assembly allowed spending to get out of control, stealing from legacy funds to pay for inflated programs elsewhere in the budget.
The result has been record deficits, increasingly late payments to service providers for work already completed, pension funds that are underfunded by more than $83 billion, and the second worst credit rating of all 50 U.S. states.
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