(Chicago Sun Times) — With a May 31 deadline looming to wrap up the budget, Gov. Quinn continued to push a long shot plan Monday to borrow $3.7 billion for a pension payment while embracing a group of discontented Democrats who introduced their own ideas to cut spending by more than a billion dollars.
While Quinn’s plan to borrow to make a pension payment has been pegged as the lesser of two evils, it requires at least some Republican support, which he doesn’t seem likely to get. Lawmakers may ultimately decide to skip the payment altogether, an action that will cost the state billions of dollars down the line.
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