{"id":40538,"date":"2026-06-17T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=40538"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:13:45","slug":"pritzker-signs-nearly-56-billion-budget-w-new-business-taxes-as-he-seeks-3rd-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/40538-pritzker-signs-nearly-56-billion-budget-w-new-business-taxes-as-he-seeks-3rd-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Pritzker Signs Nearly $56 Billion Budget w\/New Business Taxes as He Seeks 3rd Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40540 additional-class\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260616-BUDGET-SIGN-LEAD-MD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260616-BUDGET-SIGN-LEAD-MD.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260616-BUDGET-SIGN-LEAD-MD-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260616-BUDGET-SIGN-LEAD-MD-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260616-BUDGET-SIGN-LEAD-MD-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. JB Pritzker signs the fiscal year 2027 budget alongside top state lawmakers during a ceremony in Chicago on June 16, 2026. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Maggie Dougherty)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Budget contains minimal spending increase despite being largest in state history<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By BEN SZALINSKI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. JB Pritzker signed the fiscal year 2027 budget, which totals $55.9 billion, making it the largest in state history \u2014 though he had to once again issue a clean-up veto aimed at addressing drafting errors.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker said the budget aims to make life more affordable for people, such as by suspending the increase in the gas tax and instituting a 10-day sales tax holiday on school supplies in August.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New spending in the budget is minimal compared to fiscal year 2026 as lawmakers sought a conservative approach with economic uncertainty looming.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The budget includes hundreds of millions of dollars in new tax increases, largely on businesses, and sets the groundwork for the state to implement a digital ad tax in future years.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republicans said the budget fails to make life more affordable and continues unsustainable spending increases.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. JB Pritzker signed the eighth budget of his tenure on Tuesday as he and Illinois Democrats gear up for an election-year battle centered around affordability \u2014 though he had to issue a clean-up veto aimed at addressing late-night drafting errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fiscal year 2027 spending and corresponding revenue plans that will take effect on July 1 total $55.9 billion, which is slightly less than what Pritzker initially proposed in February. Though that\u2019s about $900 million more than what lawmakers initially approved for fiscal year 2026, discretionary spending will be largely flat year-over-year after lawmakers approved supplemental spending for the current year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FY27 budget raises hundreds of millions in new taxes, however, focusing on businesses, social media, fantasy sports and digital assets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite calls from progressive lawmakers to more aggressively increase taxes on businesses and the ultra-wealthy, which largely did not materialize, the budget passed with relative ease in both chambers around 4 a.m. on June 1 with all Republicans voting against it and just a few dissenting Democrats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn a year marked by economic uncertainty, rising costs and unprecedented fiscal challenges created by Donald Trump and the MAGA Congress, Illinois has once again demonstrated that responsible governing and balanced budgets go hand in hand with making life more affordable for working families and investing in the future,\u201d Pritzker said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/session-slog-ends-in-56b-budget-new-taxes-on-social-media-companies-crypto-fantasy-sports\/\"><b>Session slog ends in $56B budget, new taxes on social media companies, crypto, fantasy sports<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the budget contains fewer bells and whistles than might have been expected in an election-year plan designed to attract voters, Pritzker said Democrats\u2019 spending priorities stand in sharp contrast to Republican initiatives at the federal level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn Washington, they continue to run massive deficits and pile debt onto future generations to fund tax breaks for corporations, brutal ICE occupations, vanity projects like a new White House ballroom, painting the reflecting pool blue \u2014 which already is an epic fail \u2014 and holding UFC matches on the White House lawn,\u201d Pritzker said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois lawmakers included some tax breaks in the budget. It pushes the 1.3-cent gas tax increase that was scheduled for July 1 back until after the election to Jan. 1. It also reduces the sales tax on school supplies from 6.25% to 1.25% between Aug. 7-16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, who is running her own race for U.S. Senate, compared those breaks to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0myzxjkw99o\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump\u2019s comment last week<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that he \u201cloves the inflation.\u201d She said Illinois\u2019 budget should be a \u201cmodel\u201d for other states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have never lost sight of your family&#8217;s budget,\u201d Stratton said. \u201cFrom groceries to gas to health care, everything is more expensive right now, and families in every corner of our state are feeling the squeeze and letting us know it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to make ends meet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker also reminded voters he took office in 2019, shortly after a two-year budget impasse during which many state services were depleted. Preempting criticism from Republicans that spending has grown significantly under his tenure, Pritzker argued it has grown slower than the rate of inflation and the federal budget.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is worth pausing to reflect on just how far we have come in Illinois,\u201d he said. \u201cSeven-and-a-half years ago, our state faced an entirely different reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Republican Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, said new taxes in the budget contradict Pritzker\u2019s message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGovernor Pritzker can&#8217;t campaign on affordability then govern through tax hikes,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cBy signing this budget, he chose to put more spending and more pressure on family budgets instead of pursuing property tax relief, energy affordability, and economic growth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker issued what are known as \u201citem\u201d and \u201creduction\u201d vetoes on the budget, reducing or eliminating erroneous line items \u2014 such as removing $500 billion for an NAACP branch and cutting $60 million for a youth employment program to $30 million \u2014 that were apparently included inadvertently. The thousands of pages of budget legislation came to fruition in the final 24 hours of the spring session and passed after 4 a.m. on June 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill can take effect despite the vetoes, because the state constitution gives the governor the authority to alter line items. Lawmakers could overturn the reductions, though Pritzker said he made the move in consultation with them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMajority Leader Robyn Gabel and Senator Elgie Sims, Jr., the House and Senate sponsors, respectively, of the bill have identified a number of individual appropriation lines included in the enrolled bill sent to me for consideration that either contain errors or are duplicative of other appropriation lines already contained in the bill,\u201d Pritzker said in his veto message. \u201cUpon review, I concur with their assessment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>New taxes on businesses<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democrats approved hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue through new taxes on social media companies, businesses, digital asset sales and fantasy sports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media companies would be taxed on a progressive scale starting with platforms with 100,000 to 499,999 users paying 10 cents per month for each user all the way up to platforms with at least 1 million users paying a $165,000 fee plus 50 cents per each user each month. Though a similar tax in Chicago is being challenged in court, the state still expects to collect $200 million in revenue from the tax Pritzker proposed in February. Pritzker said he\u2019s confident it\u2019ll survive legal scrutiny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawmakers also granted Pritzker\u2019s request to lower the cap on corporate net operating loss deductions for businesses, which would generate about $300 million in new revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new 0.2% tax on digital asset sales will take effect Jan. 1 and raise $60 million for the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawmakers also established a licensing process for fantasy sports operators. Each business granted a license will pay a 15% tax on receipts from fantasy contests. The state is expected to receive $5 million from it, but participants in the leagues themselves will not be taxed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports bets made on prediction markets will also be taxed starting at 1.75%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remote tobacco retailers will have to collect taxes from the sale of cigars, pipe tobacco and alternative nicotine products to Illinois customers. That\u2019s expected to generate $3.8 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s another new tax that lawmakers aren\u2019t planning to collect this year. The revenue package creates a Targeted Advertising Services Tax, more commonly known as a digital ad tax. It would be a 10% tax on providers of digital ad services on revenue from those ads over $1 million. Lawmakers expect it will face legal challenges, but its inclusion in the budget satisfies progressives who demanded more aggressive taxes on businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business organizations, however, are worried small businesses will be hit hardest by paying a tax on revenue derived from digital ads as those ads account for the bulk of their marketing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawmakers also \u201cdecoupled\u201d Illinois tax code from the federal code and will now require individuals who sell small business stocks within five years of buying it to pay taxes on their gains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The budget itself does not eliminate tax incentives for data centers, but Pritzker has directed the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to pause processing those requests at the beginning of FY27. It\u2019s not clear how much that will save the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The budget also sweeps dollars from several funds to boost spending, including diverting $150 million in sales tax revenue from motor fuel to the General Revenue Fund once public transportation is fully funded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Little new spending<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spending will be relatively flat in FY27, and the budget includes about $65 million in reductions for government operations, House Majority Leader Robyn Gabel, D-Evanston, said during debate over the budget in the House weeks ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere is no budget that solves every problem. There is no budget that finishes the work, but this budget definitely moves us forward,\u201d said House Speaker Emanuel \u201cChris\u201d Welch, D-Hillside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The budget creates a key program to respond to federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The budget establishes the Families Receiving Emergency Support for Hunger, or FRESH Program, and people who have lost or seen their SNAP benefits reduced would be eligible for a one-time $400 payment. The program is scheduled to last just one year and is estimated to cost about $70 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state also plans to spend $55 million to hire 450 new employees at the Department of Human Services, including to help update the state\u2019s systems to comply with federal changes to SNAP and Medicaid eligibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But not all state agencies were winners in the budget. Attorney General Kwame <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/raoul-suggests-underfunding-of-his-office-could-make-winning-legal-battles-against-trump-harder\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raoul is not happy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the funding he got as his office struggles to keep up with high caseloads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe were shorted about $10 million from what our overall appropriation was for fiscal year 26 and I can&#8217;t imagine why,\u201d Raoul said on June 9 at a City Club of Chicago event, adding \u201call iterations of it all the way until 3 a.m. in the morning had us fully funded.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker said he expects money the attorney general will receive from winning settlements to make up the difference and Raoul \u201cdeserves as much support as we can provide him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local governments are getting more funding than expected after Pritzker\u2019s initial proposal, however. Lawmakers allowed the percentage of the income tax that they receive to stay flat at 6.47% after Pritzker proposed reducing it. Because of natural income tax growth, the total dollar amount received will grow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois lawmakers are also in line for a roughly 3% pay raise, which will bring their base salaries to $101,450. State law ties their pay each year to the rate of inflation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawmakers also appropriated $143 million to the healthcare program for undocumented immigrant seniors and $4 million for welcoming centers that provide services to immigrants arriving in Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Direct service providers will receive a 60-cent wage increase, which is half of what is recommended. The state\u2019s \u201crainy day\u201d fund will grow by an estimated $197 million in other state funds, though lawmakers didn\u2019t direct any new general funds toward it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also fully funds pensions and extends a buyout program for two years aimed at reducing unfunded liabilities. When the state\u2019s income tax refund fund carries a surplus of $150 million or more, money over that amount will be directed to pensions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senate Republican Leader John Curran, R-Downers Grove, was still displeased with the larger spending plan, which is the largest in state history despite its minimal growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRecord spending, supported by $800 million in tax increases, while Illinois families are forced to make cuts in their own households, is not a responsible budget,\u201d Curran said in a statement. \u201cIt does nothing to address the structural deficits that directly result in Illinois being a bottom six state in both economic growth and job opportunities under Gov. Pritzker.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other spending measures include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$263.7 million from Home Illinois, the state\u2019s primary homelessness prevention program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$5 million to continue the Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$19.8 million more to improve reimbursement rates for Department of Children and Family Services partners.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$18 million for reproductive health initiatives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$111 million for the Reimagine Public Safety program aimed at reducing gun violence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$5 million to continue the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$103 million more for personal services at correctional facilities, including for hiring additional correctional officers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$2 million for two new Illinois State Police cadet classes to train 100 new troopers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$200 million for infrastructure grants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$100 million for the Site Readiness program to prepare unused state land for development.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$1.2 billion for lead service line replacement.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$32.8 million for a hemp and cannabis testing facility in central Illinois.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$1.4 billion for deferred maintenance at state facilities, including colleges and universities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$500 million for downstate road and bridge construction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$143 million for the healthcare program for undocumented immigrant seniors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Education\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritzker said he authorized an additional 2% spending increase for higher education in the current year, which was initially held back over fears federal funding cuts could hamper the FY26 budget\u2019s ability to remain balanced. Instead, revenue is higher than expected and colleges and universities will receive about $30 million more. However, the FY27 budget signed on Tuesday calls for increasing higher education funding by 1%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The budget <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/schools-to-get-funding-increase-but-less-than-some-had-urged\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fully funds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the annual Evidence-Based Funding increase for K-12 schools, including restoring $47 million for property tax relief grants that were not included in FY26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School districts must agree to reduce their tax levy for three years to receive the grants, however.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funding for free breakfast and lunch programs at public schools also tripled to $26 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen Washington threatens food assistance for families, Illinois is investing in children and making sure more students can get a healthy meal at school,\u201d Welch said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The budget appropriates $10.8 billion to the State Board of Education, which is about $120 million more than Pritzker requested, but less than the agency hoped for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some funds are also shifting out of ISBE this year to the new Department of Early Childhood, which will become active on July 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other education spending includes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$748 million for the Early Childhood Block Grant, which continues funding for Pritzker\u2019s Smart Start preschool initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$15 million for the Teacher Vacancy Grant pilot program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$721.6 million for the Monetary Award Program, or MAP \u2013 an amount equal to FY26.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. 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