Lake County Gazette

State Rep. Chris Bos (R-Lake Zurich) criticized Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s fiscal year budget proposal which is working its way through the General Assembly.

Bos, a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 51st district, said he believes that both Republicans and Democrats can work together to “face the challenges” that have been plaguing the state.

The budget proposal has no GOP support. Democrats control nearly 70 percent of the statehouse. 

Bos said that both parties could even see that there are more things that unites them than divides them. 

“There’s more that unites us than divides us,” Bos said. 

Bos criticized Pritzker and said the proposed budget is anything but bipartisan.

“He took direct aim at bipartisan agreements passed in 2019 to support job creators and small businesses,” Bos said. “After a year of business closures, job losses and IDE's failures I’d hope to hear a ... unifying message that would acknowledge tough decisions to reduce spending, provide efficient and effective government and tax relief for those who are struggling. Instead, it is Illinois families that will once again be hurt the most by this reckless approach.”