(SPRINGFIELD) Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says he has not decided if he will accept an invitation to testify before Congress next month about Illinois’ sanctuary policies for noncitizen migrants, albeit illegal immigrants. Governors from New York and Minnesota have also been subpoenaed to testify out in our nation’s capitol in Washington, D.C.
(SPRINGFIELD) The Illinois Department of Public Health has released its updated Illinois School Vaccination Coverage Dashboard, which includes data from the current 2024-2025 school year. Even with a recent nationwide surge in measles cases, the overall measles vaccination rate for school children remains above 95% in Illinois this school year.
(SPRINGFIELD) Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with 20 other attorneys general across the nation, are warning the Trump Administration against stopping new rules for the Affordable Care Act. It was last year that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a Final Rule that would increase patient access to state and federal exchanges under the ACA. The current administration is making an attempt to unto the implementation of that Final Rule.
(SPRINGFIELD) An Illinois lawmaker is making an effort to relocate the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the Land of Lincoln. State Representative Regan Deering says the USDA should move from what she calls the “swamp” of Washington, D.C. to the heartland of Illinois, specifically Bloomington-Normal or Decatur. The move, she says, would improve coordination with farmers and agribusiness leaders, making the USDA more efficient.