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‘Gross Mismanagement’ — Taxpayers in Democrat-Controlled Illinois Paid $1.6 Billion for Illegals’ Healthcare
Breitbart ^ | 02/28/2025 | Amy Furr

Posted on 02/28/2025 8:45:06 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A state audit found taxpayers in Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D) Illinois paid out a whopping $1.6 billion for healthcare programs for illegal immigrants since 2020.

The news comes after Republican legislators pushed for the audit to be released, Fox News reported on Friday.

In regard to the audit, state Senate Republican leader John Curran said it showed there has been rampant overspending.

“And it also showed that the governor was unable to manage this program. Thousands of people were allowed to sign up for free healthcare for years on the state taxpayer dime that should not have been eligible under the parameters laid out for this program, and the governor failed to even seek federal reimbursement when eligible on certain services for years, leaving federal dollars on the table,” he explained.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: arrestpritzker; controlled; democrat; followthemoney; gross; healthcare; illegals; illinois; mismanagment; moneylaundering; paid; taxpayers; wastefraudabuse
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Don't worry, IL will still vote rat even with this news
1 posted on 02/28/2025 8:45:06 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Chicago: We tried the woke white Democrat machine politicians, we tried the woke black lesbian, and we tried the woke black BLM radical

Now we demand a woke globalist hispanic!


2 posted on 02/28/2025 8:46:53 AM PST by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hopefully those federal dollars are off the table. There needs to be consequences for actions. If you endorse programs, you should pay for it. Everyone needs skin in the game, You’ve run out of other people’s money. Sorry. Not Sorry.


3 posted on 02/28/2025 8:48:05 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

sounds like an Ill voter problem to me. I have no F’s to give.


4 posted on 02/28/2025 8:49:48 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

$1.6 billion spent. 12.7 million people in Illinois. That’s about $126 PER PERSON (not per tax payer), to support their own invasion/replacement by illegals.


5 posted on 02/28/2025 8:52:04 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hate to break this to the other 49, but since money is fungible, it wasn’t just IL taxpayers...


6 posted on 02/28/2025 8:53:46 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Idiot Pride.


7 posted on 02/28/2025 8:54:36 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats have so many ways to give the finger to American citizens. Add this to the lists.


8 posted on 02/28/2025 8:55:20 AM PST by GOPJ (Delta just Bud Lighted themselves - freeper dfwgator)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Somebody needs to go to jail.


9 posted on 02/28/2025 8:57:24 AM PST by econjack
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To: BigFreakinToad

interesting. my F-meter broke too. in fact everyone I know who used to have one has thrown it out because it broke and they’re too expensive to fix. seems to be going around quick, fast and in a hurry. it’ll be a long time before I ever get another one.


10 posted on 02/28/2025 8:58:38 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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Only $1.6 Billion? Pikers!

In a 2025 budget hearing, the California Department of Finance showed the state spending $9.5 billion for healthcare for illegals under Medi-Cal, with $8.4 billion from the state’s general fund.


11 posted on 02/28/2025 9:00:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
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Dammit, Janet! It wasn’t gross mismanagement. It was what our Founding Fathers
described as plunder.


12 posted on 02/28/2025 9:02:13 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thanks you Chicago. We Texans won’t have to pay medical bills for foreigners.


13 posted on 02/28/2025 9:03:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Schmucky Schumer says that Government "hard workers" are working anonymously.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

can illini vote their way out?


14 posted on 02/28/2025 9:13:52 AM PST by joshua c
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Don’t worry, IL will still vote rat even with this news
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That State has to be second only to California as a mecca for the most ignorant people in the USA!


15 posted on 02/28/2025 10:05:47 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Vult!)
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Hopefully those federal dollars are off the table. There needs to be consequences for actions. If you endorse programs, you should pay for it. Everyone needs skin in the game, You’ve run out of other people’s money. Sorry. Not Sorry.
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Excellent and says everything that needed to be said.


16 posted on 02/28/2025 10:09:10 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Vult!)
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To: Sicon

to support their own invasion/replacement by illegals.
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It’s really depressing to discover that we’re surrounded by such grossly ignorant people.


17 posted on 02/28/2025 10:12:14 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Vult!)
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To: econjack

Somebody needs to go to jail.
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Heh, if all the people being exposed for fraud and other criminal conduct were given proper sentences the number of new prisons needed would probably double the number now in operation!


18 posted on 02/28/2025 10:16:55 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Vult!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Q: Where did he get the $$$$?
A: USAID


19 posted on 02/28/2025 10:29:58 AM PST by Zathras
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
"It’s really depressing to discover that we’re surrounded by such grossly ignorant people."

And governed by such grossly corrupt people.

20 posted on 02/28/2025 11:12:06 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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