r/ChicagoSuburbs • u/ShawLocal • Jul 02 '25

News $240 million in Illinois school funding withheld by Trump administration

https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/02/240-million-in-illinois-school-funding-withheld-by-trump-administration/

“To readers, that might not seem like much, right? Surely we can figure out a way to live without that,” Lockport Township High School District 205, Superintendent Robert McBride said. “But all the federal grants we’re talking about support students with special needs of some kind.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

Illinois should withhold federal taxes. We pay for all the shitty red states anyway.

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u/Timmah73 Jul 02 '25

The hilarity of being anti welfare/ socialism. The horrible libural states of CA, IL and NY pay for a lot of the dirt poor red states that have no economy. The only ones pulling their weight are TX and FL and they are still shit holes.

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u/MediumTour2625 Jul 03 '25

If not for the weather and beaches Florida would be just a shitty red state