Can a state budget deal be reached this summer? Governor Bruce Rauner says that he has hope that one can be completed by the end of May. And if it would take a special session that he would consider a rather unconventional way of making sure taxpayers aren’t picking up the bill.

Rauner adds that he wants to see the fiscal year budgets for both this current year and the coming FY 17 to get done at the same time.