Quinn talks budget with women lawmakers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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| Gov. Pat Quinn |
CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn said he will outline next week about $1 billion in cuts to state government operations.
Quinn continued talking Friday with a group of more than two dozen women lawmakers about passing a balanced state budget.
The state's new fiscal year started Wednesday without a spending plan in place because he and lawmakers can't agree on how to wipe out an $11.6 billion deficit that Quinn says has been trimmed to $9.2 billion.
Quinn didn't detail the cuts he would be making but said they would be "very deep."
He says nobody in state government would be immune, even people who are "some of the mightiest of our mighty in Illinois."
