JB Pritzker has announced his Day 1 agenda when Democrats take over Congress in January. How much do you think taxes will have to increase to pay for all of this… ?
Yikes! JB just released a 75-page document, titled “Fighting for Illinois – The Day One Agenda,” Governor JB Pritzker wants the newly elected 120th U.S. Congress to prioritize beginning January 3, 2027.
Pritzker’s agenda is organized around seven major areas. All of which will result in tax increases.

Here is a breakdown of the proposals:
- Health care, Medicaid and food assistance
Pritzker is asking Congress to:
-Restore federal funding and staffing at health agencies, including the CDC and Medicare/Medicaid agencies.
Restore funding for public health -research, disease prevention and HIV prevention.
-Reverse federal restrictions affecting LGBTQ+ services, diversity programs and -immigrant services.
-Restore funding for homelessness prevention and affordable housing.
-Protect Medicaid coverage and oppose new Medicaid work requirements.
-Eliminate the requirement that certain Medicaid recipients renew coverage every six months instead of annually.
-Restore expanded Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) premium subsidies.
-Restore SNAP food assistance funding and eligibility rules.
-Protect SNAP benefits for people with disabilities and older residents.
-Prevent states from having to absorb additional SNAP costs.
-Restore Medicaid eligibility for certain lawfully present immigrants.
-Reverse restrictions on Medicaid funding for reproductive health providers.
-Restore federal protections for abortion access.
-Expand home health care and community-based services for people with disabilities.
-Increase funding for caregivers and respite care.
-Increase federal funding for senior citizen programs.
-Expand veterans’ mental health and suicide prevention services.
Increase funding to combat veteran homelessness.
-Restore federal support for veterans’ medical equipment.
-Expand federal funding for foster care, child welfare and family preservation programs.
- Immigration and civil rights
The agenda calls for:
-Halting what JB describes as excessive immigration arrests and deportations.
-Creating a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients and long-term undocumented immigrants.
-Restoring temporary protected status for certain immigrant groups.
-Limiting the use of immigration verification databases such as E-Verify and SAVE.
-Requiring greater oversight of ICE and Border Patrol.
-Requiring warrants for certain immigration arrests.
-Requiring body cameras and additional training for immigration officers.
-Restricting immigration enforcement at schools, hospitals, churches and polling places.
-Establishing stronger legal protections for immigrants in detention.
-Limiting federal biometric surveillance.
Restoring federal voting rights protections.
-Restoring federal employment discrimination reporting requirements.
Increasing federal oversight of civil rights enforcement.
- Education and schools
The agenda asks Congress to:
-Restore the U.S. Department of Education to full operating capacity.
-Reopen federal education civil rights offices, including the Chicago regional office.
-Restore federal oversight of special education programs.
-Protect federal funding for special education and students with disabilities.
Revoke the federal English-only directive.
Protect bilingual education and English-language learner programs.
-Restore federal support for career and technical education.
-Maintain existing federal school meal standards.
/Restore federal support for Head Start.
Protect Head Start teacher wage and benefit standards.
-Expand federal funding for childcare assistance.
-Create a federal paid family leave program.
-Increase the maximum Pell Grant from $7,395 to $10,000.
-Restore Grad PLUS student loans and expand graduate student borrowing options.
-Change student loan repayment rules and restore more affordable repayment options.
-Restore tax exemptions for forgiven student loans.
-Protect international student visa and work-training programs.
-Protect funding for minority-serving colleges and universities.
-Preserve federal TRIO and GEAR UP college preparation programs.
-Expand funding for community college workforce training.
-Restore the National Blue Ribbon Schools recognition program.
-Protect diversity, equity and inclusion programs in education.
-Guarantee public education regardless of a child’s immigration status.
- Budget, taxes and the economy
Pritzker is asking Congress to:
-Reverse proposed changes to federal grant rules.
-Protect Illinois from federal grant funding being withheld over disagreements with federal policy.
-Provide $1,700 in tariff relief per Illinois household.
-Require refunds for unlawfully collected tariffs.
-Protect federal funding for Illinois businesses, schools and social programs.
-Restore funding for clean energy and solar programs.
-Release approximately $264 million in previously awarded Illinois clean-energy funding.
-Release an additional $16 million in federal electric-grid improvement funding.
-Support reopening the closed Joslin beef processing plant in Illinois.
-Protect tax-exempt municipal bonds used by cities, counties, schools and other local governments.
-Make new nuclear power facilities eligible for tax-exempt financing.
-Restore the ability of municipalities to refinance certain bonds.
-Restore consumer complaint information and protections through the Consumer -Financial Protection Bureau.
Strengthen federal oversight of banks and financial institutions.
-Protect consumers from high-interest lending practices.
-Expand workforce development and job training programs.
-Reauthorize federal employment and job-training tax credits.
-Expand federal investment in quantum technology and research.
-Create incentives for domestic manufacturing of bio-based materials.
-Expand opportunities for minority-owned and disadvantaged businesses in federal contracting.
- Public safety, law enforcement and infrastructure
The agenda asks Congress to:
-Ensure FEMA disaster assistance is based on actual need, not a state’s political affiliation.
-Oppose shifting federal disaster-response costs to state and local governments.
-Protect federal funding for local fire departments and emergency responders.
-Restore federal homeland security funding to Illinois and the Chicago region.
-Increase funding for local police and crime prevention programs.
-Restore federal cybersecurity assistance for state and local governments.
-Reinstate federal inspections and security requirements for chemical facilities.
-Expand funding for counter-drone technology and training.
-Restore federal funding for railroad and pipeline safety inspections.
Protect federal funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
-Restore funding for passenger rail and public transportation.
-Restore federal electric vehicle and battery manufacturing tax credits.
-Protect federal infrastructure grants from cancellation based on changing political priorities.
-Increase funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure.
-Expand funding to replace lead water service lines.
- Environment, energy and agriculture
The agenda calls for:
-Restoring federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Increasing restrictions and research involving PFAS contamination.
Regulating abandoned coal ash disposal sites.
-Increasing funding for lead cleanup projects.
-Restoring federal clean-energy and solar tax credits.
-Expanding wind energy development.
-Opposing federal efforts to keep uneconomical coal plants operating.
-Expanding federal funding for zero-emission school buses.
Increasing funding for clean ports and industrial electrification.
-Making federal water assistance permanent for low-income households.
-Establishing additional protections for private wells and drinking water.
-Establishing national monitoring and regulation of microplastics.
-Increasing federal funding for Great Lakes water quality initiatives.
Increasing funding for environmental cleanup and brownfield redevelopment.
Increasing federal assistance for electricity and natural gas bills.
-Allowing year-round nationwide sales of E15 gasoline.
-Passing a comprehensive Farm Bill with conservation funding.
-Increasing federal support for farmers, agricultural research and meat inspection programs.
-Restoring staffing at federal agricultural inspection agencies.
- Technology and data centers
Some notable proposals include:
-Establishing national artificial intelligence safety standards.
-Creating stronger federal privacy protections for personal information.
-Requiring energy-efficient and water-efficient data centers.
-Encouraging geothermal cooling and other zero-emission technologies for data centers.
-Establishing federal oversight of emerging digital technologies.
….wowza- sure sounds like JB is already running for president.
