Today, Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie (Savanna), Deputy Leader Norine Hammond (Macomb) and Deputy Leader Ryan Spain (Peoria) held a press conference to call for structural reform and preview the end of the spring legislative session, as the FY26 Budget deadline looms near. With several new tax proposals introduced in the last week, the lawmakers raised the alarm for Illinoisans. Rep. Spain warned Illinoisans to watch their wallets and declared House Republicans would stand as a blockade to fight Democrat tax increases.
With 7 days left in the spring legislative session, there are many important issues to address.
Here’s what Illinoisans are facing:
🚩 No relief for Illinoisans who are being crushed by our state’s burdensome tax rates
🚩 Spending taxpayer dollars on health benefits for illegal immigrants while our most vulnerable citizens struggle
🚩 “Green” energy policies costing residents in rate hikes, causing job losses, and shorting energy generation capacity in Illinois
🚩 Public safety failures due to the broken SAFE-T Act putting Illinois communities at risk
🚩 A lack of ethics reforms that are desperately needed to end public corruption in Illinois
Democrats think more revenue is the answer to all our problems. The truth is, without structural reforms, that revenue will be wasted and our residents will continue to struggle.
House Republicans will serve as a shield for taxpayers and a source of truth for the people of Illinois throughout this budget season and beyond, will not support a budget with ANY tax hikes and will continue to expose bad policy put forth by the majority party.