Pritzker urges Congress to take up 200-point agenda

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced a 75-page federal policy agenda Wednesday, urging the incoming Democratic-controlled Congress to take up more than 200 proposals when it begins work next year. The document, titled Fighting for Illinois: The Day One Agenda, sets out changes he says would address federal decisions affecting Illinois and other states. The proposals include restoring or expanding federal support for SNAP and Medicaid, raising the federal minimum wage, comprehensive immigration reform and national safeguards for artificial intelligence. Pritzker also calls for reversing some provisions of H.R. 1, including restrictions on food assistance eligibility and reductions in federal Medicaid support. The agenda asks Congress to restore education grants and public health research funding, reinstate the National Blue Ribbon Schools program, and refund consumers for higher costs from tariffs. It also calls for wider abortion protections and changes to federal immigration enforcement. Among the immigration proposals are limits on warrantless civil immigration arrests and restrictions on agreements between federal and local law enforcement. For artificial intelligence and...