Pressure has been building for action in Springfield ahead of the July 1 start of the new budget year, with Wall Street ratings agencies threatening to downgrade the state's credit to junk status. Meanwhile, the state is at risk of violating multiple state and federal court orders that compel it to write checks with money it doesn't have. And the lottery agency that runs the multistate Powerball and Mega Millions games is threatening to drop Illinois if there's no budget by the end of the month.