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May 31, 2023 • 19 tweets • 11 min read
So last week, the Illinois legislature finished up its spring session with a $50.6B budget. They were scheduled to wrap the week prior, but the legislative process can get messy. Here's what that looked like. A #twill photo🧵
From the night of adjournment: Reps. Jehan Gordon-Booth and Norine Hammond, the Dem and GOP budget negotiators. Hammond said that Republicans were all but shut out from the closed door meetings where the budget was discussed.