Governor JB Pritzker signed his $56B budget yesterday, bringing the number of tax and fee increases in his two terms to 63.
In his two terms, his tax increases have taken a cumulative $77 billion more from taxpayers, and this does not include an additional $8.5B a year higher property taxes since 2019.
Illinois residents now pay the highest state and local taxes and fees in the entire nation. Pritzker’s tax policies have throttled Illinois economy, which has produced less than 10K private sector job growth since Pritzker became governor.
We just won Missouri v. Biden.
As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people.
Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech.
Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big.
This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked.
For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.
@rbcomer8388@jetsfanoftheyr@ChrisVannini Context is important and you left it out.
ND was up 27-3 the entire game vs IU .
ND’s 11 point loss versus Ohio state was the closest defeat in a title game since the 2017 season
@DavidSacks tell Jason he doesn’t have a solid point when he cites a range of $40-100k and also never touches on how much illegals cost tax payers over a lifetime of sucking benefits they shouldn’t receive
Ultraviolet ICE agents had their feelings hurt by [ checks notes ] the Star Wars sound track 🤦😂
These lawsuits are going to cost tax payers a fortune, and that’s on top of the 40-100k per deportation we’re already wasting.
This will be a hundred billion wasted over the next three years
@BasedMikeLee And, let's be honest, go back to the "Twitter Files" and reporting by @mtaibbi, @bariweiss and Lee Fang when @elonmusk after purchasing @X turned over the files, emails found troves of censorship not to mention public calls for it.
The effort undertaken by @DOGE and @elonmusk is one of the most important of my lifetime and I am committed to not letting the bureaucracy slow it down.
We need to get the costs under control; we need to get government efficiency under control; and we need to make the government work better for the American people.
At @USTreasury we’re committed to doing that.
Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships.
This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy.
That was one of the most incredible political press conferences I’ve ever seen.
Trump + Elon standing in the Oval Office, telling the American people directly what they are doing… basic financial management of our out of control spending.
“This isn’t optional, it’s essential.”
@TheSubwayDomer James Franklin doesn't know how to react to a bowl win. Penn state thinks it won the Lombardi
ND better not even accept the sugar bowl trophy tomorrow