As the General Assembly's spring session draws to a close in Springfield, nothing about the state's budget is solid ahead of Sunday's midnight deadline. Politicians say this session's especially contentious process has left them with a bad taste in their mouths.
In a press conference Friday, Republican Governor Bruce Rauner voiced his annoyance with the last few weeks of legislative action.
"Much of what you've seen has been phony, much has been for your entertainment rather than for real progress."
Republicans have loudly objected to the way in which Democrats have pushed through an out-of-balance budget. But members of the majority party, like Representative Ann Williams of Chicago, say they're frustrated too.
"In your family if you're faced with a financial crisis, which we are as a state, you want to agree, 'Okay, we need to put some money in savings, we need to pay off our credit card debt.'"
Williams and other Democrats are asking for a non-binding resolution so that budget negotiations in future years follow a more discernable, equitable pattern.
