>> First off tonight, Governor JB Pritzker's proposed state budget holds the line on taxes.

But it also largely holds the line on additional spending as Illinois faces, more modest revenue projections and the expectation that the state will see cuts in federal funding under President Donald Trump and of indicate joins us now from Springfield with more.

Amanda.

>> Yes, brand this was a budget address and will.

Doubled as the state of the State address and Governor JB Pritzker used it to issue a warning.

>> About what he worries is happening to the country under President Donald Trump, he says is a Jewish man who knows Holocaust survivors.

He after all helps to build the Holocaust Museum in Skokie.

He is watching what's happening to the country was for boating dread.

>> It took the Nazis one month.

3 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.

And all I'm saying is that when the 5 alarm fire starts to burn every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water.

If you want to stop it from raging out of control.

>> What the future holds for Governor Pritzker's and open question.

It could be a run for a 3rd term as governor.

But Republicans say that he's openly campaigning for president and they say this was an offensive way to do it.

>> I'm personally offended that I had to sit here and repeatedly here, the governor of this state.

Accused members of my party as being Nazis.

>> In a lazy trope to launch a national campaign I think the Republican caucus, both the House and the Senate deserve an apology from the governor.

>> Asked about it just a bit ago.

Pritzker stood by his remarks.

He said that he was warning of tyranny and that what happened last entry in Germany and in Europe, he says could happen anywhere.

>> and then there's the budget.

Of course, that could be impacted by federal cuts under Trump.

Yeah, certainly could.

Although the governor said just how is difficult to contemplate, he did warm residents that if federal cuts to, as the president has been talking about, do hit that, it would hurt many Illinois families, be it reducing their options or their health care or even the impact of tariffs.

Otherwise, though, he said depending on what Trump really carries out, it could cost a whole lot of chaos and confusion in Illinois, but also he says in red states as well.

He says that it is difficult.

However, given that degree of uncertainty to build into a budget at this point in time.

and what does this budget do then?

And how does it handle this deficit that we've been hearing about for some time?

>> Yeah, that deficit was supposed to be over 3 billion dollars.

And we're still really looking at the numbers.

Republicans skeptical.

>> About these rosier projections that and said stay that Illinois is going to have more revenue coming in all be a ticket that will be modest.

So governor had an easier time than he would have if it had been that 3 billion dollar deficit.

So getting to a a balance, a spending plan did not require systemwide cuts, nor it require all wholesale tax increase like a reason.

The income tax rate.

>> Let's be clear.

I will only sign a balance budget if you come to the table, looking to spend more, I'm going to ask you where you want to cut.

I've made difficult.

I have made difficult decisions, including to programs that I have championed, which is hard for me just as I know, some of the difficult decisions you will have to make will be hard for you.

>> Already led to no lawmakers are pushing back hard the governor's proposed elimination of a program that provides health care to non-citizen immigrants roughly between the ages of 40 60 years old.

Look for that to be a big of hearing that it was going to be a tough budget year.

I think that we expected there to be some things in the budget that we weren't going to be happy with.

>> I think completely removing a program not anything that we were expecting.

We're absolutely committed to continuing to fight and hold the line for the program.

We believe that healthcare is a human right.

And we believe taking people off of health care is not the right answer.

>> Now, when it comes to spending increases, more money will be going toward pensions.

Also, there is a proposed increase to spending on education.

However, it is nowhere near the amount that Chicago public schools and the teachers union have long been clamoring for altogether.

Republicans say that this is a proposed spending plan that is nowhere near modest nor last year.

>> Under his leadership, the budget has increased almost 37%.

Now for hard-working families out there.

Has your salary increased 30% over the last 7 years or have your bills decreased?

37 1% over the last 7 years.

But yet we have a governor who thinks taxpayers are the golden Goose.

>> Now this is a 5th.

dollars state budget.

So of course, there is a whole lot more in it.

>> And then there is also this the governor's office pointedly trying to it says help families by programs that don't cost the state money into that and they are proposing changes like allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees in select areas like where there are hi needs for careers, for example, nursing and then also restricting or it helping to hone in health care costs.

That is by restricting what pharmacy benefit managers can do.

This is a operators that Pritzker partially responsible for increases in prescription drug prices.

All of this at this point is just a proposal in Illinois.

Lawmakers have the next 3 months to hash it all out.

Back to you.

>> All right, Amanda, thank know, keep an eye on it for us.

And you can Mandel's full story on Governor Pritzker's.