Alleging the Trump administration wants to take health care away from people, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week signed a state budget that does just that. Come July 1, the $55.2 billion fiscal year 2026 Illinois state budget removes the provision Pritzker had previously enacted to give state taxpayer subsidies to the

HB1075, also known as the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Implementation Act creates changes in state programs that are “necessary to implement the state budget for this upcoming fiscal year.

“There is not a hit list that has Illinois politicians on it,” said Pritzker, who told reporters he’d been in touch with the head of the FBI’s Chicago office as well as Illinois State Police Director ...