* From the governor’s press conference today…

Q: The CTU and some members of the CPS board have called for a special session for funding. We’ve all chatted about the idea of a special session for Trump funding. And now we’re a significant way through of the summer, the tax bill has passed. Do you see us returning to Springfield for another legislative session before October? And can I get you to react at some point on the CTU’s call to come back?

Pritzker: I can’t tell you definitively. There’s a lot of time between now and October when the veto session will occur. But at the moment, I don’t see any reason why we would have a special session. Having said that, like I said, I mean, every day is different. We may have to deal with something sooner.

Let me say also that the dollars that the Trump administration have taken away from education. First, it’s a shame what they what they are doing. I mean, it is shameful, and it is not something that we can fill the, you know, we can’t backfill what the Trump administration has done to health care and education. We just can’t. We don’t print money here. We don’t have a multi trillion dollar budget in the state of Illinois. There’s no state in the United States that can backfill what the Trump administration is now taking away. And just to remind you what’s the purpose of all of that, why are they doing that? Because they want to give tax breaks to literally the wealthiest people in the country, some of whom are the wealthiest people in the world. And it is the folks who are sending their kids to public schools, it’s folks who are just trying to make ends meet who need those dollars. Our education system needs those dollars. Medicaid needs those dollars, and not Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Please pardon all transcription errors.