Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger has said that the recent stopgap budget deal passed by the Illinois Legislature won’t stall the growth of the state’s debt. Munger says that the state’s bill backlog will only continue to expand into the fall months and that by the end of the year; the state is looking at $10 billion in unpaid invoices. She’s making a point of making paying state lawmakers and constitutional officers including herself a low priority.

Munger calculated that the state is on track to outspend its revenue by two and a half billion dollars in the next six months.