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Pro-Trump Counties Vote to Secede from Illinois, Form New Red State (www.ibtimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Federal funding wouldn't stop. But shared state tax revenue from Chicago would

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The federal funding is provided to the state of Illinois, so the counties need the state treasury to provide federal funding to them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they were granted secession by the federal Congress they would be a state and get federal funding. That's the only way they'd leave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes but that circumstance could happen regardless of actions taken by the state of Illinois so it doesn't have any impact on the plans I laid out.