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I know you can support that he's trying to change the status quo but my goodness. Yeah those working poor families where both parents have to work and ned help with daycare are the problem Have less kids!! Make more money so Mom can stay at home, plebes !!What a fucking douche. Im sure he just hasn't come to the part where he goes after his rich buddies yet.
[i]Thwarted by lawmakers in his efforts to dramatically cut state spending, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has turned to a workaround, using an obscure rule-making process to repeatedly tighten eligibility requirements for numerous social service programs for children, the elderly and the disabled.
The tactic is another front in his ongoing battle with Democrats who control the General Assembly, turning a normally staid legislative panel responsible for drafting rules and procedures into a bickering partisan body that has difficulty finding common ground.
Now as Rauner continues to try to force additional cuts, his latest plan would make it more difficult for people to try to get state services restored once they lose them. Critics say it amounts to a one-two punch: First, thousands of people lose home care or help paying for food and electricity; then they face a harder time proving they really need the help.
Democrats and social service groups sharply criticize the end run, saying Rauner is governing by rule and abusing his administrative power to push through changes without proper vetting.
"In the years that I have served, I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen such a single-minded dedication from a governor to try to balance the budget on the backs of seniors, people with disabilities and children," said Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago. "It's a question of are you using your executive authority to circumvent things that should be done legislatively?"
Supporters counter that Rauner is simply taking advantage of one of the very few options he has to reduce spending when roughly 90 percent of the budget is going out the door during the lengthy impasse via court order or existing law. The situation is putting Illinois on track to spend billions more than it's taking in.
"This may be shocking to the system and the protocol and the feel and jibe of what has been, I get that, but we are truly in new circumstances, these are unventured territories," said Rep. Ron Sandack of Downers Grove, Republican co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, the panel that's responsible for overseeing the minutiae of putting a law in place.
"There is only so much that the administration can control, and the few things they can are really difficult topics, it's not fun," he added.
At the center of the fight is the state's subsidized child care program, which helps low-income families pay for day care so parents can work or go to school. Rauner first targeted the program for cuts when he proposed his budget shortly after taking office. But Democrats roundly rejected his spending plan, sending him their own version that he largely vetoed.
On July 1, the start of the new budget year, Rauner put in place so-called "emergency rules" to immediately raise child care copays and sharply limit who qualifies. His administration also set new income limits for the elderly who receive help at home with cooking, cleaning, bathing and dressing.
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