The unpleasant sight of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker brings one word to mind — pork:

At $55.2 billion in general funds spending, the governor just signed the biggest budget in state history. The fiscal year 2026 budget is up $2 billion from last year and propped up by more than $1.55 billion in revenue that was projected but other forecasts said was iffy.

Buried in its 3,300-plus pages are hundreds of local “member-initiative” earmarks that benefit only Democratic districts. That means 4.3 million Illinoisans, or 1 in 3, was excluded from the pork projects their taxes supported in other legislative districts.

This isn’t new. Democrats have firm control of Illinois, so government is a spoils system.

An investigative report in 2022 found a total of $368 million for House Democrats and $326 million for Senate Democrats. None was included for Republicans.

Lording over the pork is the leftist plutocrat Pritzker.

While individual Democratic legislators are primarily focused on projects for their own districts, the governor is elected to serve all of Illinois. …

The governor has the power to veto specific sections of an appropriations bill that he disagrees with, called an “item veto.”

Yet he failed to rein in the partisan porkfest.

Meanwhile, the red carpet welcome mat for illegal aliens remains in place in this sanctuary state, so as to increase Democrats’ demographic leverage. Wirepoints has questions for Governor Pork, including these:

How do you justify spending more than $1.5 billion of Illinois taxpayers’ dollars on healthcare for illegal immigrants when Chicago has the highest black poverty rate in the country among the nation’s biggest cities?

How do you justify spending hundreds of millions, if not billions, on illegal, non-English-speaking children at Chicago Public Schools when the school district is already junk-rated, faces a billion-dollar deficit and has just 21% of black students able to read at grade level?

How do you justify the billions spent on illegal migrants when Illinoisans already pay the nation’s highest property taxes, the 2nd-highest gas taxes and the highest cell phone taxes?

Chicago’s massive black vote does not empower blacks; it empowers Democrats. By ensconcing the likes of Pritzker in power, it is pulling the entire state down the Democrat Death Spiral.

On tips from WL.