of Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed property tax hike.

Meanwhile, plans by Democratic politicians in Springfield to quote Trump proof the state and defense attorneys cross examine a key witness in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Here with all that and more are my spotlight.

Politics compatriots Amanda Vicki and Heather Sharon going to see above.

So as we mentioned earlier in the show, Mayor Johnson acknowledging that proposed 300 million dollar hike likely not going to pass City Council.

Heather, you are at the mayor's press conference earlier today.

What's next for the budget process?

Well, on Thursday, the city Council will hold a special meeting to sort of put an exclamation point on their rejection of that 300 million dollar property tax hike.

But as I've said on the show before, budgets or 0 sum games, if you do not raise taxes by 300 million to fill in nearly 982 million dollar deficit, you have to do one of 2 things you have to either borrow that money.

That's not possible for the city because it already has a massive debt load.

>> Means you have to cut or you've got to raise other taxes.

And it seems that like Mayor Johnson says he will not accept a budget that includes layoffs.

So that means that they're going to have to cobble together 300 million dollars worth of smaller tax hikes, the hikes and perhaps some new charge hope that residents small notice quite as much is that I do now linking figure on your property tax bill current yet rather than just one big.

Ouch.

It's a bunch of You know me, Heather.

Does the city council's apparent rejection of this proposal?

>> Undermine Mayor Johnson's Authority and City Council.

Well, it is a startling review and it is sort of a nature of budget negotiations that we've never seen before because under mayors, Richard Daley and Mayors manual, it was a rubber stamp.

You had 49 to one budget votes.

Now that started to change under Mayor Lori Lightfoot who said she didn't like to horse trade and sort of get into the nitty gritty, but her, but it's also passed relatively easily.

>> Johnson sort of cast that today as good thing that this robust debate is an indication that democracy is alive and well in Chicago and that these discussions which had taken place behind closed doors under previous mayors are now coming out in public and giving people a chance to sort of, you know, engage in it.

However, it's not clear why the mayor would propose a property tax hike of this size if he didn't think it had some base level of support on the city Council and I just said they're no longer 50 to 0 budget vote anymore.

I think that will be wrong if this vote does happen on Thursday.

Nobody wants to be on record.

Having voted to raise property taxes especially again after he pledged not to during campaign.

I think that that is really key here in something that we can't ignore that older persons aren't ignoring.

You can't go back from that.

And so it makes it even more mystifying because he's taking that political hit without getting the benefit of the funding from it, especially after what last year forgoing a inflationary raise in the property tax hike that I think people really wouldn't have noticed.

It wouldn't of trending back on a campaign promise because it was built in any way have to do that.

Well, he he promised undo those inflationary tax hikes to and Lori Lightfoot who proposed it couldn't even get that through her last year It's another indication that property taxes remain the 3rd rail of Chicago in Illinois.

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Well, speaking of other bad budget handle, we heard about this 3 billion dollar deficit.

Illinois is expected to be facing.

>> Republicans are blaming Democrats for that.

What ideas do Republicans have to close well and they say that for starters, they don't have a full grasp of where the state budget is that because they hadn't part of negotiations in a full some capacity.

And so they want to get a handle on that first.

But really they're take making 2 takeaways from the election.

They say that people are upset about spending.

They're worried about their own wallets, kitchen table issues and therefore, there should be no tax increases.

And then they're also pointing to frustration with spending on new arrivals and they believe that.

>> Illinois needs to reverse some of the programs that have paid for.

So, for example, some tuition programs are really a lot of focus on health insurance.

It is going toward non citizens.

So those are the areas that they are really pointing to.

Let's be clear, though, that would certainly not be nothing.

I mean, those are programs that do cost more than a penny.

That's that not enough to knock out a 3 billion dollar budget deficit that is projected.

>> Speaker Welch was with us earlier.

He's been among the the sort of course, of Democrats talking about, quote, unquote, Trump proofing the state.

How much power do state lawmakers have to push back against the federal government if it sets its mind to it?

I think and see the big question because there's just so much ground that could be cover there.

>> If, for example, there is a national ban, an abortion, even though there's a lot projecting that Trump administration won't go that route.

But nonetheless, if there were what do you do about that?

Illinois has its own separate sent protections that said there are certainly >> areas in state law that are being scoured over right now that, for example, rely on federal statute.

And so part of it is really just sort of dotting your I's crossing t's, making news.

Sure, it's not.

They're looking at protecting, for example, that prevailing wage and labor laws looking at making sure that there are protections for DOT data privacy, whether it be, for example, like a period tracker here.

Tracking somebody on their cell phone if they come to Illinois where there are protections, for example, for gender affirming care that are outlawed in other states.

>> We also heard earlier from Mayor Johnson about his reaction to Kamala Harris is resounding defeat last week.

Here's what the mayor had to say.

>> We will not or break.

Our values remain strong and for.

We will face likely hurdles in our work over the next 4 years.

But we will not be stopped.

And we certainly would not go back.

>> Heather, the mayor was asked specifically about President elect Trump's calls for deportations.

You know, the prospect of ICE raids in the city where the mayor have to say he said that Chicago will agree to revoke its sanctuary city status.

It will not allow police to work quick immigration agents if they come here as the president-elect has said that they will and that they are prepared to fight the federal government in court to protect the city's share of federal grants.

If the Trump administration tries again to yank them for those protections for And we've got about 30 seconds left.

We mentioned that referendum increasing the income tax on millionaires.

How about another one down state from some voters who might want to secede?

How did that ballot hear about that fared actually get to pass resoundingly.

And this was in a bubbly 7 states are really handful of counties, not what want to become their own state is the whole point.

Like you said they want to succeed in.

This is something that we have not just in this election.

There's really been a pattern of particularly downstate counties taking this approach.

>> And I think while waiting happen, it is not some there for that.

We should concentrate a lot on.

It is definitely a show of the polarization and a regional divide and frustration, frankly, that a lot of these Republican majority counties feeling toward the city of Chicago and Cook not anything that's likely to happen, but certainly not something that lawmakers should be ignoring.

I'm sure we will have much