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Report: Trump cuts could shrink Illinois economy by $10B

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) -- Recent cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration could reduce the size of Illinois’ economy by nearly $10 billion each year, according to a new report released Monday by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute. The report offers a detailed look at the effects of cuts enacted by Trump through executive order or legislation, directives by federal agency leaders, or through Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency.” It also sheds light on how many jobs will […]

December 2, 2025 44

Illinois Governor Governor’s office cuts revenue projection by $500M in latest downward estimate

Capitol News Illinois

Governor’s office cuts budget revenue projection by $500M

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) — Gov. JB Pritzker’s office is now projecting state revenues to come in about a half-billion dollars below the baseline projections assumed during his February budget address. The latest downward revision comes as lawmakers are entering the final two-week stretch to approve a budget before their May 31 deadline amid increasing economic uncertainty. While Pritzker’s office blamed changes made by the Trump administration for revenue shortfalls, the new fiscal reality is almost certain to make passing […]

May 16, 2025 95

Capital Area Region

Pritzker talks session timeline, programs, spending

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – In a series of downstate news conferences coinciding with the Illinois State Fair, Gov. JB Pritzker this week gave an update on the possibility of a special session, outlined new state infrastructure investments, and announced a new program for some Illinoisans over age 55. While the governor quickly announced he would call a special session after the landmark Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade was overturned in June, lawmakers have thus far not scheduled any […]

August 16, 2022 65

Capitol News Illinois

Pritzker signs bill expanding covered Medicaid services

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinois residents who have health coverage through Medicaid now have access to a broad range of services including mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, smoking cessation, and dental services. Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 2294, which passed unanimously out of both chambers during the spring legislative session. “This legislation that I'm signing into law today is a product of our passionately dedicated, bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators who are part of the […]

July 6, 2021 21

Business & Lifestyle

UCSF study: Quitting smoking could save California’s MediCal program $2.6 billion per year

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Researchers say they think cutting smoking in each state by 1 percent in a year would lower the cost to taxpayer-supported Medicaid by $2.6 billion the following year, according to findings published Friday in JAMA Network Open. "While 14 percent of all adults in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, 24.5 percent of adult Medicaid recipients smoke," said Stanton Glantz, who runs the tobacco research center at University of a California at San Francisco and study author, in […]

April 12, 2019 40

Business & Lifestyle

How health care fraud in Michigan represents a wider problem

Six medical providers made headlines weeks ago after they were indicted for illegally prescribing around 13.2 million doses of prescription for painkillers. In an indictment on December 6, the doctors from Michigan were charged with insurance fraud amounting to $464 million. The court issued 56 counts of the indictment against the owner of the Pain Center USA in Eastpointe and Warren, Michigan and the Interventional Pain Center in Warren, Mich., 77-year-old Dr. Rajendra Bothra and five other doctors who work in the […]

December 31, 2018 28

Ballot Access News

Second Libertarian gubernatorial debate held Saturday, targets wide range of issues

BELLEVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The Libertarian Party of Illinois, in partnership with the Metro-East Libertarian Party, held their second gubernatorial debate between candidates Matthew C. Scaro, Grayson "Kash" Jackson and Jon Stewart at Southwestern Illinois College's Belleville campus on Saturday, Jan. 13. The debate was moderated by Aaron Wright, field operations director for the state party. The candidates gave 90-second opening statements, starting off with Stewart, who was fighting laryngitis. Stewart offered an apology to both Scaro and Jackson for his […]

January 15, 2018 117

Decision 2018

Experts: Democratic candidates for governor float unworkable, expensive healthcare ideas

CHICAGO (Illinois News Network) -- Several Democratic candidates for Illinois governor are floating ideas they say will improve Illinois’ healthcare outcomes, but critics of the various plans say the ideas are unworkable and expensive. Billionaire J.B. Pritzker said in a campaign video he wants a new program called IllinoisCares. “We should be focused on expanding affordable healthcare, not eliminating it,” Pritzker said, criticizing the Trump administration and congressional Republicans’ attempts at dismantling the Affordable Care Act. “That’s why I have […]

December 14, 2017 21

Business & Lifestyle

Illinois hospitals, doctors getting big payday from state, but ‘unpaid bills’ problem remains

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- Hospitals, doctors offices, nursing homes, and pharmacies across Illinois are in line for a huge payday this week. The state of Illinois is finally paying off about $9 billion in old Medicaid and other medical bills. Danny Chun, spokesman for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, says hospitals across the state are grateful for the money even though this payday doesn't bring them all the way back to even. "There are still bills out there that hospitals won't […]

November 14, 2017 21

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Report: Trump cuts could shrink Illinois economy by $10B

Governor’s office cuts budget revenue projection by $500M

Pritzker talks session timeline, programs, spending

Pritzker signs bill expanding covered Medicaid services

UCSF study: Quitting smoking could save California’s MediCal program $2.6 billion per year

How health care fraud in Michigan represents a wider problem

Second Libertarian gubernatorial debate held Saturday, targets wide range of issues

Experts: Democratic candidates for governor float unworkable, expensive healthcare ideas

Illinois hospitals, doctors getting big payday from state, but ‘unpaid bills’ problem remains

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