With only about a week left in the fiscal year, Governor Bruce Rauner is urging the legislature to come back to Springfield and pass a temporary budget. Governor Rauner says if lawmakers don’t pass education funding and a stopgap budget by the end of the month, there’s a risk that schools may not open in the fall, road projects will be halted and vital programs will be shut down.
Although the fiscal year is set to end in just over a week, it doesn’t matter on many fronts—there hasn’t been a budget in place for the entire current fiscal year.