WATCH: Candidate Dabrowski wants audit as IL Child Care Services funding skyrockets

(The Center Square) – Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski is calling for a forensic audit of state spending on human services, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the speaker of the Illinois House have different ideas.

Dabrowski held a news conference in downtown Chicago Tuesday, in the wake of ongoing fraud allegations involving child care funding in Minnesota.

Dabrowski said, in Illinois, state appropriations of state and federal Child Care Service funds increased 299% from 2019 to 2026 while the general funds budget grew 37% during the same period.

“Three-hundred percent growth, is that fair? It might be good for somebody who’s getting the money, right, but there’s other people who are having to pay,” Dabrowski said. “They were just burning their tax bills on the West and South Side.”

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