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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Uncertainty dominates Illinois budget talks as deadline nears
Six more working days. Next Saturday's the deadline for Illinois state lawmakers to pass a new budget. They've got more issues than Iowa lawmakers did for their budget and they worked overtime in Des Moines. Democrats in Illinois are trying to pass the largest budget in state history at the request of Gov. JB Pritzker – this while trying to close a shortfall of at least half a billion dollars, as well as uncertainty about how much support the state will get from the federal government. There are a lot of unanswered budget questions going into the last scheduled week of Illinois' legislative session. We'll try to get some answers this morning from State Sen. Mike Halpin and Rep. Tony McCcombie, also the House minority leader. What are the chances the state adopts a basic budget by the deadline with the intent on coming back in session during the session to hammer out more details? 'We're going to go the best we can, given what we know for a fact, here in Illinois,' Halpin said. 'This budget should be fine. I don't think we need to worry about the Trump administration affecting our going into a $1 billion deficit,' McCombie said. Question of the Week Now we want to hear from you, too, and that brings us to our question of the week. What do you think about the possibility of new taxes on services and/or deliveries in Illinois to help balance the budget? Share your thoughts at 4therecord@ Local 4 News, your local election headquarters, is proud to present , a weekly news and public affairs program focused on the issues important to you. It's a program unlike any other here in the Quad Cities. Tune in each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as brings you up to speed on what's happening in the political arena, from Springfield, Des Moines, Washington, D.C. and right here at home. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
President's uncertainty regarding oath to The Constitution generates heated debate
President Donald Trump gave an interview with Kristen Walker from NBC's Meet the Press last week that covered his first hundred days in office. It went for more than an hour. Immigration came up about halfway through it, specifically the right to due process when it comes to the mass deportations being carried out by the Trump administration. The president criticized the courts for interfering and said it would take millions of trials to process the deportations. Welker followed up with this. 'Even given those numbers that you're talking about, don't you need to uphold The Constitution of the United States as president?' Welker asked. 'I don't know,' said President Trump. 'I have to respond by saying again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me. And, they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.' Host Jim Niedelman brings back Kevin Perkins and Kurt Whalen to discuss. 'I'm not surprised that he's not fully committed to upholding the Constitution,' Perkins said. 'I think it is ludicrous,' Whalen said. 'I think clearly President Trump knows he has a duty to uphold the Constitution.' To hear more, click on the video. And now we want to hear from you, too, with our question of the week: What do you think about the President saying he doesn't know if he needs to uphold the Constitution? Please share your thoughts at 4therecord@ Local 4 News, your local election headquarters, is proud to present , a weekly news and public affairs program focused on the issues important to you. It's a program unlike any other here in the Quad Cities. Tune in each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as brings you up to speed on what's happening in the political arena, from Springfield, Des Moines, Washington, D.C. and right here at home. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
New round of property tax reform in Iowa might not happen this session
Iowa state lawmakers are on course to wrap up the legislative session in a couple of weeks on May 2. They passed a bipartisan bill that requires hands free driving when it comes to the use of electronic devices in cars, and another to expand insurance coverage for firefighters who have cancer. However, Republicans in control pushed through some divisive measures like one that removes the protection of gender identity from the state's Civil Rights Act. They also enacted a law to establish a work requirement to be eligible for Medicaid. One thing unusual about this session involved the annual fight over money for public schools. The disagreements stayed the same. However, finalizing this spending is usually one of the first things that gets done in the legislative session. They finally sent it to the Governor two weeks ago. There is still some unfinished business for Iowa state lawmakers as they wind down this year's legislative session. They already made several big decisions. Host Jim Niedelman gets into that with Iowa State Representative Gary Mohr and State Senator Cindy Winckler. 'The time period took longer because you had the senate proposing a flat two percent and the Governor proposing that, and the House wanted to get more money for public schools,' Mohr said. 'We would certainly be funding our schools more adequately, we're not keeping up with the cost of inflation which really makes it difficult for schools,' Winckler said. To hear more, click on the video. And now we want to hear from you, too, with our question of the week: What do you think can be done to improve the quality of education in public schools? Please share your thoughts at 4therecord@ Local 4 News, your local election headquarters, is proud to present , a weekly news and public affairs program focused on the issues important to you. It's a program unlike any other here in the Quad Cities. Tune in each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as brings you up to speed on what's happening in the political arena, from Springfield, Des Moines, Washington, D.C. and right here at home. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hot debate about president possibly invoking Insurrection Act of 1807
There are a lot of courtroom battles going on surrounding the activity of the new Trump Administration not yet a full three months into the term. A lot of it surrounds the executive order the president signed declaring a national emergency at the southern border. That set off a flurry of deportations to foreign countries without due process for those picked up by immigration authorities. Host Jim Niedelman brings back Jeff Kaufmann and Kevin Perkins to discuss. 'This act has been invoked 30 times,' Kaufmann said. 'There is no invasion, there is no emergency,' Perkins said. To hear more, click on the video. And now we want to hear from you, too, with our question of the week: What do you think about the possibility President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act of 1807? Please share your thoughts at 4therecord@ Local 4 News, your local election headquarters, is proud to present , a weekly news and public affairs program focused on the issues important to you. It's a program unlike any other here in the Quad Cities. Tune in each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as brings you up to speed on what's happening in the political arena, from Springfield, Des Moines, Washington, D.C. and right here at home. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump & GOP targets law firms, judges & federal courts
President Donald Trump doesn't like lawyers or judges who take action against him. He's made that very clear in his second term. The President has issued executive orders against four law firms to suspend security clearances for their lawyers as well as restrict their access to government buildings, officials and federal contracting work. That's because some of their lawyers were involved in legal cases against the President. A federal judge already declared one of them unconstitutional. However, the President lifted one of the orders when the law firm agreed to provide $40 million worth of legal services in exchange. Now to the judges. The Trump Administration is pushing the limits by ignoring court orders specifically involving the mass deportations. The President has called for impeaching federal judges, and this week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson threatened to close some federal courts. Host Jim Niedelman brings back Bill Bloom and Mark Schwiebert to discuss. 'I think there was plenty of weaponizing by the Democrats during the previous administration, above and beyond Senator Menendez,' Bloom said. 'There's apparently been no screening,' Schwiebert said. 'Hundreds of thousands of people have been deported, at Trump's behest, to both Venezuela and to Haiti which have terrible, terrible legal problems.' To hear more, click on the video. And now we want to hear from you, too, with our question of the week: How do you feel about President Trump's executive orders targeting law firms and Republican threats to shut down federal courts? Please share your thoughts at 4therecord@ Local 4 News, your local election headquarters, is proud to present , a weekly news and public affairs program focused on the issues important to you. It's a program unlike any other here in the Quad Cities. Tune in each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as brings you up to speed on what's happening in the political arena, from Springfield, Des Moines, Washington, D.C. and right here at home. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
