>> good evening and thanks for joining us on the weekend review.

I'm Nick Lumber, Mayor Brandon Johnson tells big company and wealthy Chicagoans.

It's time to pay up.

>> And this is just the beginning of the next phase of a struggle for justice and liberation.

The mayor's budget proposal calls for more than 600 million dollars in new revenue trying to tackle a gaping budget deficit without hiking property taxes.

>> They're not arresting people who are a threat.

They arrested either.

The arrests began the workers that >> Federal courts continue to stymie President Trump's aggressive push into Chicago, slamming immigration agents for apparently defying a judge's order limiting the use of tear gas and keeping in place a block on deploying National Guard troops.

Democrats and Congress refused to fund the federal government.

And because of this, many of our operations are impacted.

O'hare and Midway join a slew of airports that refused to air a partisan video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Meanwhile, state lawmakers head back to Springfield eyeing transit funding energy costs, Anti-Trump efforts.

Former House Speaker Michael Madigan reports to federal prison in West Virginia.

And a Chicago ledge and sees its shine him.

As scientists say the famous red whole was almost certainly made by a >> and now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are alarm and Trout of the Chicago Sun-Times.

There is a legal mess.

All Donna of WBEZ and our own Heather Sharon.

Let's get right to it.

Lots to cover this week, Heather, we will get to the city budget in just a moment.

But first, there was some court action just this afternoon over President Trump's efforts to deploy troops in Chicago.

Phyllis in on the latest.

Well, the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift the buck put in place by both a district court judge and an appellate court panel this week.

He is asking for the power to immediately deploy.

>> About 700 National Guard troops into Chicago and the surrounding areas.

The Supreme Court gave lawyers for the state in the city until 05:00PM Monday to respond.

So I think it's pretty safe to say that they would not act until before then, but his argument to the Supreme Court is that essentially the appellate court in the district court in Palma simply substituted their judgment for his judgment, that there are is at least the danger of rebellion in Illinois in Chicago and federal agents has been unable to execute a federal law.

Those are both very contested claims.

It's going to be very interesting to see where this goes.

Really the first major test of of the president's powers here.

Much more in immigration and National Guard troops issues to get too.

Coming up.

>> But Heather, sticking with you for a minute.

Mayor Johnson's budget proposal out this week has 617 million dollars in new taxes and fees aimed largely at well to do residents.

Big businesses.

What's that revenue going to fund?

Well, essentially basic operations of the city when you have a budget deficit of nearly 1.0, 2 billion dollars you are.

If you are talking about the meet of organizations, you know, police fire, garbage pickup.

>> And without Johnson sort of supporting a property tax increase, there's really no other way.

He says then task, big businesses to pay a little bit more as he keeps saying put a little bit more skin in the game.

Yeah, I mean, he really promised and he campaigned on no property taxes increase.

And I was really waiting to see how creative he was going to get.

Of course, we saw some of that creativity coming in with even a social media attacks.

>> Yeah, coming in with some of interesting ways to to generate revenue.

But, you know, obviously trying to to meet the desires of progressive Alders to maintain some of the programs here without putting things, you know, that are more aggressive on there, like like water fees or garbage fees.

You know, this budget does include a at $21 a month had tacks on firms with more than 100 employees.

You know, businesses have called this a job killer, of course, bees to have a much smaller one that was eliminated under the Emanuel Administration.

But you don't Mitch, if this passes, how likely is that?

The company simply just pull up stakes and leave immediately.

We're talking about companies like Google of McDonald's, huge corporations that you know, it's going to be big or not pull up stakes immediately because of something like this.

But, yeah, I mean, it certainly it's effectively punishing large corporations for being big employers.

And that's why going to see such a huge push back from this from a lot of members of the council.

>> We're already hearing major pushback from the business community.

But but, yeah, this is exactly what Brandon Johnson has promised since he was first elected.

You know, just ways too, you know, get the wealthy and big corporations to to spend for programs that lower-income Chicagoans will depend on.

Yeah, of course.

The mayor saying this is just 3% or so of players.

But you know, when you've got a massive workforce up, 21 bucks a month, that's quite a lot of money.

>> You know, head of this also is an effort.

This plan to avoid any sort of layoffs or furloughs you have to imagine that the mayor's allies and labor unions are pretty happy to see that happen.

You know, unions heavily backed.

They certainly are.

They are less happy and a little bit skeptical of the plan to declare 1 billion dollars in tax increment financing districts to be in surplus.

>> That would send more than 500 million dollars to the Chicago public schools to help them deal with their budget deficit.

And it would help fill a good chunk of that massive budget gap that the city had.

So if those funds aren't being used for redevelopment projects, construction workers don't work.

Asphalt layers don't work.

So there are a lot of questions about whether that sort of massive surplus would require projects, sort of that have been in the pipeline to be canceled.

That administration officials told us yesterday that these no active projects are going to be impacted.

The devil is always in the detail.

Different people have different definitions of what activists means and to be frank, we have not seen the 2024 Cook County tip for port, which is supposed to come from Cook County Clerk, Monica Gordon's office.

I would sure like to see that that report because it would give us a better sense of sort of where that money Although to be clear, there was 3 billion dollars into funds county wide by the end of 2023.

Yeah.

So certainly quite a bit of money sloshing around there.

You know, only the mayor says when he was making his address, the council saying the special kind of shore up the city against attacks from the Trump administration.

But >> Chicago and see a city budget in those terms.

Yeah, I think a lot of people are just kind of wondering, is this a Band-Aid?

Is this going to help short term or is there some structural actual change?

Some vision here?

And I think people are going to kind of want to look to see where the numbers fall.

But I agree.

I think people are like saying House is going to help write yet.

What is this going to my day-to-day life, you know, Mitch, there's lots of praise from progressive aldermen.

You know, after this was released.

But as you mentioned, some of the pushback already starting to happen.

Do you think the mayor's team is is anxious about whether we'll see is contentious a budget season as we did last time around.

Yeah, I mean, I think Heather, especially I think a lot reports of PTSD it was so contentious.

>> From a lot of people's holiday schedules and hopefully that doesn't happen this time.

that something no who but yeah, it's there's going to be such a huge push back to these business taxes.

especially interested to see Facebook.

Meta, Reddit, the social media companies are facing a potentially huge tax burden other states have tried to.

And when it acts like this, it's not the pasta.

Washington state and Minnesota are looking at something similar and the idea of implementing that system and then turning it around generate 30 million dollars next year seems ambitious.

But that's even if, you know, there's not an army of lobbyists descending on City Hall as we speak, which there absolutely Yeah, I can hear them sort right now.

Yeah.

I mean, with a new revenue stream, it's not as simple as turning something on versus like, you know, if you're increasing the property tax or, you know, putting the grocery tax back into place where we already have a mechanism.

It's whole new revenue stream, a lot more complicated.

But what the mayor is hoping is that there are enough sort of new creative ways to generate revenue in this budget that he does not suffer sort of the wholesale revolt that the he saw on the progressive caucus last year.

>> Now, if you managed is to keep sort of his progressive caucus Allah's together and he has a couple of the more moderate Alderman Lake Alderman Jason Ervin and Alderman Pat Dowell.

Those sort of people he will get he he will have an easier time getting it through.

I think that his his calculation, somebody like Alderman Brian Hopkins and Alderman Brendan Reilly.

I don't want to say that they wouldn't vote for Johnson budget under any circumstances.

But they are diametrically opposed on sort of theories of government.

So Johnson is clearly not sort of trying to win their votes as much as he's trying to sort of say this is my vision for progressive government in Chicago, which is something we didn't see last Yeah.

And then to just add to that, I mean, I think when it comes down to them to the debates, if we're going tax people that huge companies, that's better, better kind of.

Debate to have been raising property taxes.

If we want to give money to schools, I think everybody would say that's a good idea, So I think that there's it strategic there.

Yeah.

Stronger baseline of widespread agreement.

I'm sure they hope.

>> Well, Heather, some other city news this week.

The inspector general says the mayor's Jason Lee should be fired for failing to cooperate with an investigation.

Remind us what the watchdog was looking into here.

Well, this stems from a complaint made by Alderman Bill Conway who said that he had asked the mayor's office to help him clear camp meant of unhoused people near the Eagle, the train station and union station and the mayor's Jason Lee basically said, well, you're going to vote for our staff in the time honored horse trading.

Where is mine tradition that we all know and love in Chicago politics now Alderman Conway said that was inappropriate because he needed public safety help.

So he filed a complaint with the watch Now the watchdog said that she asked interview Jason Lee and he refused because he wanted a lawyer.

>> From the Department of Law to sit with him.

The inspector general said, nope, that's not permissible.

And basically that's where the probe ended.

Now, Jason Lee says, look, it's my right to has whoever I want, whatever lawyer I want their the watchdog said no, this is a little bit of sort of behind the scenes tension between the mayor's office and the inspector general.

They changed the law after all this to make sure that people like Jason Lee could say, hey, I want somebody from the Department of Law to sit with me in these interviews, but it's clear that there is was a deep breakdown between the mayor's office and the inspector general which are supposed to be at all that, you know, an adversarial relationship that this was a deep disagreement about how sort of the watchdog function should And of course, the mayor will soon be looking for a new watchdog with Deborah.

What's Bergen, her way out?

>> All right.

Well, federal government still shut down.

local airports are among some around the country that are refusing to play a video from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for not funding the government air.

Sally critics are saying and hard to watch the video and think otherwise that this is a fairly straightforward use of government resources for political ends.

I mean, I think that one started report start to kind of coming up a wise, this video being played.

Well, I'm waiting here in the airport and people started taking it down and just citing that it was political content.

I mean, it does read like it's blaming one side for the government shutdown and a lot of people are kind of wondering how did this even kind come to be anyways?

And of course, here in Chicago, that's not going to be the case because they said they're not going to air it.

>> Yeah, but Hatch Act fairly straightforward of what you can and cannot do is government employees.

>> All right.

Well, lots of a court action this week on the immigration front.

In addition to that filing to the Supreme Court.

>> Heather, a federal judge has twice warned agents to turn on their body cameras and wants them to lay off the tear gas.

Sounds like she was a little frustrated that that message was getting you know, federal judges do not typically get angry during court hearings.

And I think Judge Sarah Ellis was angry.

She said >> that she wanted Border patrol and ice agents to be wearing body worn cameras when they're out in the streets of Chicago, enforcing federal law.

>> Federal lawyers said, well, sure, but we don't body worn cameras for everybody.

we deployed tear gas because our agents were under threat.

So there is a real conflict here between sort of what a judge says, you know, law enforcement agents under the federal authorities has to do.

>> And sort of what they say.

They are capable doing.

This is essentially the same argument that is before SCOTUS right now.

Right?

Can local judges, federal judges sort of direct how federal agents operate in Chicago while enforcing immigration law.

So we're going to have a full hearing on Monday where the judge tried to haul the head of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's into her courtroom to answer questions.

He has been sent back to Washington, perhaps a little bit abruptly.

So somebody else is going to have to answer the judge's questions on Monday, but perhaps we will get more indication about what she's going to do to sort of, you know, change the way these immigration rates very militarized and very disruptive from going forward.

It's an interesting response say that we don't have body cameras, especially.

mean, it is a little bit difficult because there is a government shutdown.

>> But we also know that there's a lot of money going into immigration operations currently in the country right now.

So >> yeah, well, you know, speaking of some other court houses here, Mitch Cook County Courthouse is other property now off limits for agents looking to make warrantless arrests.

Do we have any idea exactly how the county plans to enforce that ban on keeping agent's office property?

We don't just like we don't really have a great idea of how that could be enforced anywhere.

That's just kind of this push and pull.

>> Between federal authorities and local ones.

But yeah, this order from Chief Judge Timothy a lot of local officials have been calling on him to issue such an order for the last few weeks these immigration raids have been ramping up.

And, you know, this is top of mind for a lot of local officials.

We see state lawmakers down in Springfield for veto session there to be considering probably several bills looking at limiting where ICE agents can operate and deport people.

a lot of progressive.

State lawmakers are calling this an ICE out campaign with again, the idea of being can the state bar federal agents from court houses, places like hospitals or we've seen folks be taken away by masked agents, schools, state universities.

You know, that's kind of the best.

But state lawmakers say they can do at this point.

But again, it's pretty short time for for the state to get it done.

>> And to be clear, I think in this case we're still talking about they can still execute judicial warrants.

So if there is a name, you have a warrant, you can still go and execute that warrant.

But you know, no civil arrest, people that are just there for sometimes to be a witness, sometimes they're a family member of somebody that's in court.

And I think those are the kind of things that, you know, the judge is saying that's not true, that it's kind of hurting the judicial system.

There's also nothing that says the federal government has to follow this order did because I, you know, separation of powers and federalism.

That's it's still a thing.

You know, the state and local governments do not get to tell the federal government what to do.

works in the other direction as much as many people would like.

You know, Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson to start arresting ICE agents you know, that sort of thing.

It's really not clear that this order is going to have any impact.

But I think it is perhaps more symbolic than anything else to say.

we don't want this sort of operation here on our property.

>> Well, we're joined as well now by Shruti Singh from Bloomberg News.

Thanks for being with us.

In truth, you know, we've seen a lot of immigration enforcement targeting people on the job.

There was a raid on the rideshare lot at O'Hare.

You know, folks taken from construction sites.

You know, is there any sense of could heighten enforcement have sort of economic ripple effect folks are being taken away from their workplaces?

>> Yeah, that is something that when I talk to investors, not specifically but Chicago, but just a lot of different municipalities, states and local communities.

Investors are starting to question the economic impacts of all this federal risk in terms of funding.

And so while they're not specifically talking about any specific city, they're saying, you know, we're going to look at a macro impact and then level up in terms of like credit ratings and things like that.

Yeah, there's a lot a lot of things for them to consider.

>> You know, we're talking for a bit about the city budget, but you've also been reporting on Chicago public schools.

They're drawing down hundreds of millions from, you know, lines of credit.

There was also a major asset manager offloaded basically all the school district's debt that it had held.

Are these potentially warning signs for CPS?

>> So in terms of the asset manager, Nuveen, which is actually a Chicago based asset manager.

And it has a long history with CPS during the budget impasse when CPS had to take what they called crisis debt Nuveen was among the lenders that helped give them funding Nuveen actually sold into a rally during early September in terms of high-yield bonds.

And so.

remains to be seen was this and opportunistic and they haven't commented.

So it remains to be seen.

Was this just an opportunistic sailed during a rally or something bigger?

But at the same time, there's no question that there are questions and risks for CPS.

Yeah, he's going to be something that lot of folks are paying close attention to.

>> All right.

Well, we already talked a little bit about a Springfield lawmakers heading back for their fall veto session.

>> Obviously that the Trump administration is top of mind.

But what are some of the other big priorities that you're watching out Number one is the mass transit fiscal cliff facing the Metra and pace.

We can talk about this for months.

Looks like that number.

Yeah.

Looks like number now is somewhere around 200 million, 230 million deficit.

That gonna run into next year.

So that, you know, lawmakers.

The state Senate passed a bill back in the spring that would have imposed a buck 50 delivery tax to help fund the system's long-term along with some reforms and the governance of it.

But that bill is dead on arrival in the House.

You know, lawmakers, we've kind of talked about this just for so long.

The government's side of this seems to be pretty well agreed upon as far as northern Illinois Transit Authority.

But again, it's just going to be what type of tax or lawmakers willing to swallow a few months ahead of primary election.

I think that's the big question.

You know, there is this.

cliff is hanging out next year, but they think there's a really good shot that this gets pushed to January again, just kind of kick the can down the road once more.

But gives us an opportunity to keep talking about it for months and all right.

So how her friends, the Chicago Bears, State Representative Kam Buckner is introduced a bill.

>> Trying to hang them up a little bit potentially, right?

Yes, Camp Buckner.

He's the state rep.

>> His district covers soldier field.

He does not want to see the Bears move.

But basically this poll he filed is more of a I would I would call this about Bill.

It's probably not going to move this session, but really just puts up a lot of huge guardrails for any team that wants to have a the stadium publicly financed just in terms of, you auditing the dollars that go into projects and making teams reimburse counties.

If they don't meet certain criteria, again, all kind of underscoring that there's no appetite for any sort of mega development bill that Bears President Kevin Warren has been talking about for 3 years And, you know, we saw even a national broadcast.

Kevin Warren is kind of gone the air with announcers talking about this bill that they make it.

it's a done deal, but it's really couldn't be farther from the truth at this point.

>> And even though the Bears are the winning streak, which I'm very happy I just you know, when I look at all of the stuff that lawmakers have to do in Springfield in session, you know, we're talking about transit.

We're talk about energy reform.

We're talking about cannabis.

It just feels like it's kind of low the It was also a fiscal backdrop in terms of the state local situations.

So, you know, you talked about the city budget.

We've talked about CPS.

>> But Governor Pritzker also just a few weeks ago asked the State Department's to really pull back and put more money into reserves because of these questions.

But the federal state and the relationship between the 2.

So the fiscal backdrop isn't necessarily helpful.

a lot of questions there.

Well, in talking as well about, you know, those those governance issues with transit.

>> You know, seeing a, you know, estimate go from 700 million to 200 million has really led some lawmakers to say we knew transparency into into the finances there.

I mean, for any public transit agency, whatever, how hard is it for them to engender trust with lawmakers when they don't feel like they have a sense of how taxpayer dollars are being spent >> think that's age old question that I think a lot of us reporters, they have been asking for it to even know how long.

But, you know, let's just put this in perspective.

There is still a fiscal cliff.

There's still a question about where this funding is going to come from.

It may be smaller.

It may be pushed off a little bit, but it hasn't disappeared.

200 million is still a heck of a lot >> Alright, Springfield, adjacent news, Heather, former House Speaker Michael Madigan is officially a federal inmate.

But still appealing his conviction, correct?

He reported this week to a West Virginia prison camp.

He had requested to be in Indiana closer to his Department of Corrections did not see fit to send him there.

>> He's 83 years old and he is serving a 7 and a half year sentence.

Now he's going to get time for good behavior.

There's also the possibility that he would be beast because of his age or medical concerns.

But what up a fall from just being the uncontested.

Just ruler of all things, Springfield, to now being a federal inmate.

I think was a moment for all of us sort political junkies to sort of, you know, take a deep breath and, you know, sort of the arc of his career.

You know, however, it's another indication that Chicago and Illinois has deep deep problems with corruption.

If anybody thinks that this is going to sort of be the last Illinois politician to head to jail, gosh, that would be nice.

But I think I'm going to be in business for a little while longer.

Yeah, it is.

You know, even with his conviction, even though we knew this was almost certainly coming actually seeing it happen quite remarkable.

>> That it happened this week, if you like it, if it would happen to me, you know, a few few weeks ago, we would have covered it a lot more.

But just so many things are happening.

And it's it's a big moment for Lanai.

>> Well, and, you know, we've you know, state lawmakers, Republican lawmakers saying, you know what, this is a dark day for Illinois.

This is something we should be said about.

But I mean, realistically in the day-to-day operations of the veto session going have much of an impact.

Do you think?

>> No other than yes.

Showing up GOP press releases which they were very swift to that the Republicans will take any chance to tie Mike Madigan to the current party.

You know, it is kind of undeniable.

I mean, Mike Madigan, his responsible for generations and generations of lobbyists and lawmakers and special interests.

And yeah, I mean, any other new cycle that would be the tops for for days on end.

But yeah, there's few other things going on around town up it just a little Yeah, we're a little bit busy, but >> we've got a great group of folks helping us break it all down.

But unfortunately, we are out of time.

Our thanks to Mitchell arm and Trout are selling missile.

Donna, sure if he saying and Heather Sharon and we're back to wrap things up right after this.

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Have a great weekend.

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We mentioned it at the top of the show.

Some tragic news this week.

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