Codifying his lack of confidence in President Donald Trump’s economic policies, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday ordered state agencies to find 4% in cuts to their budgets that would go into reserves to mitigate the effects of federal budget uncertainty.

The executive order signed by Pritzker was the latest salvo by the Democratic governor against the Republican president as the two have repeatedly clashed , especially since Trump retook the White House in January.

After stating in a news release that Trump’s economic policies are “disastrous,” including the passage of a domestic policy agenda this summer that cut costs and gave tax breaks to the wealthy, Pritzker said the executive order was meant to emphasize the massive scope of what the administration’s policies were doing to state budg

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