“… Illinois lawmakers have said the state budget they passed and Gov. J.B. Pritzker enacted was balanced and properly contributes to public pension accounts, but an accounting watchdog said that’s misleading. … ‘We passed a capital bill for the first time in ten years, a balanced budget, creating a lot more jobs, passed a balanced budget meaning that we’re not going to continue to increase our debt,’ Cullerton said. ‘We have a law and we’re following it. We’ve done it for eleven years straight.’ …”
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