Statement·other·said 2020-05-04
“Illinois got into fiscal problems because of a Republican governor who was governor there before Gov. J.B. Pritzker.”
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Verdict
Mixedby PolitiFact
2020-05-08Reasoning
Former Gov. Bruce Rauner's budget standoff did worsen Illinois's finances, but decades of bipartisan fiscal mismanagement - especially chronic pension underfunding - drove the underlying crisis.
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