SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker introduced Friday he’s freezing the implementation of latest industry tax credit and calling for legislators to prevent adjustments to the state’s source of revenue tax framework to save lots of coronavirus-ravaged Illinois simply over part 1000000000 bucks. Outraged Republicans known as it “just one more hit” for suffering industry homeowners. The new, expanded state tax credit would have price the state $20 million once a year, in step with the governor’s information unlock pronouncing the freeze and proposal. They have been licensed in 2019 as a part of a chain of tax adjustments that have been scheduled to take impact initially of this yr. But the governor argues that the tax credit got here on
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Sen. Durbin rejects GOP witness swap feelers as Trump
WASHINGTON — Before the protection wraps up Tuesday in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the quantity two Democrat within the Senate, dismissed solutions by GOP senators for witness swaps, with the primary John Bolton for Hunter Biden. “We’re not trading baseball cards,” Durbin stated on CNN. “We’re not youngsters sitting round right here selecting our favorites and placing them in the course of the circle. What we’re speaking about are related materials witnesses. “… This concept of bargaining, properly, we’ll provide you with one irrelevant witness for one materials witness. Baloney. These ought to be materials witnesses. And we now have stated we wish the chief justice to be the
Intraparty GOP criticism is a headache for chief Durkin
His super-minority caucus is fractured into no less than two even smaller camps For the second time this 12 months, House Republican Leader Jim Durkin has stripped certainly one of his member’s entry to a House communications staffer. Rep. Chris Miller, R-Oakland, is the newest to lose his state-funded communications workers member. Earlier this 12 months, Rep. Dave McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, misplaced his comms staffer for criticizing fellow Republican Rep. Steve Reick for allegedly making “racist” feedback and calling on House GOP Leader Jim Durkin to resign for being a “fake Republican” and “corrupt insider.” McSweeney, who needs to run statewide in 2022, mentioned he paid for his personal communications staffer, so he wasn’t