SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A temporary budget to keep Illinois government operating in a new fiscal year has failed in the House, but one is still alive because the Senate OK’D an identical measure.

Democrats battling with Gov. Bruce Rauner put up a $2.3 Billion, one-month spending plan yesterday for the state to limp along during the impasse. It fell four votes short of the 71 needed for approval.

Senate Democrats advanced the temporary fix 37-0 earlier in the day, with 11 ‘present’ votes, and moved that measure to the House. But its prospects were dim – particularly because Rauner has indicated that he will veto it anyway.

 

 

 

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