WASHINGTON Illinois lawmakers, already faced with pendingfederal decisions that could cut state tax revenues, added proposalsfor spending cuts to their list of worries Tuesday.
A White House-backed plan to cut Medicare spending by $5.5billion in fiscal 1991 would force Illinois to cough up $276 millionin payments to providers of Medicare services, said Illinois HouseMinority Leader Lee A. Daniels (R-Elmhurst).
He said efforts to cut federal spending seem inevitable ascongressional and White House negotiators try to slice $50 billionfrom a projected federal budget deficit of $170 billion in fiscal1991.
Daniels and Illinois Senate President Philip J. Rock …
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