revealed I'm Amanda Hospital shutting their doors.

Tens of thousands of patients potentially losing access.

Doctors, therapists and medicine.

Some of that devastating impacts.

Doctors and Democrats warn are coming the federal government lacks Medicaid.

>> The doors in our facility just up the street and the doors where we're standing right now, do not remain open without Medicaid.

>> Meanwhile, Illinois says despite a court order to keep money flowing, it's missing nearly 2 billion dollars promised by defense.

>> They love the chaos because it leaves all of us out here not knowing.

Whether we can even continue for them.

And they're hoping that will just decide to shut things down.

First for fear of not getting paid.

>> A new world order 3 years after Russia instigated a war, President Trump disparages the president of Ukraine.

>> Beginning of the war, not in a good position of don't have the cards right now with us.

You start having all kinds car.

>> A Republican led congressional committee prepares to real Mayor Brandon Johnson over the city's immigration policy fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens.

Chicago passes and 830 million dollar bond yield to pay for infrastructure upgrades.

>> Over protest will cost residents a whole lot more.

>> Where we have all the bond rating agencies, all the financial experts, all the financial people telling this is a bad deal and for us to see and ignore that.

>> Again is another problem.

This is not about run of the mayor.

It is about the people city Chicago.

Folks don't care about all this genetic is it goes on down here.

The only thing people care about is what you can do, put in their community.

They care about trees bid a near miss at Midway Airport.

>> Bolton's embattled mayor who says a primary and slow down or get a ticket.

Chicago's getting more speed cameras.

>> And joining us for our week in review panel are Quin Meyers from Block Club.

Chicago Shruti Singh from Bloomberg News violent Miller from the Chicago Sun-Times and start afresh that from the Chicago Tribune.

Now let's get to it Shruti nearly one in 4 Illinois residents rely on Medicaid.

That is the federal and state joint program for people who are either to say bold disadvantaged in the economically.

>> We heard from Democrats and from doctors about what could happen if the budget resolution that passed the U.S. House becomes reality.

Are these true threats or is this just more partisanship?

It's really hard to tell in terms of what's going to happen.

One of the things that Governor Pritzker has been saying for weeks now, even before the inauguration is that he is worried the unpredictable nature of the Trump administration could be a hit on the state budget as well as items such as Medicaid, which is a big one for the state.

One of the things that the state looks at is how much reimbursement it gets from the federal government for every dollar that the state spends its gets roughly about $0.50 back from the federal government, which is nothing to sneeze at.

So this is something that state officials are looking at closely.

The governor was in the city talking today about how devastating impacts could be.

We have to see what's going to happen in terms of the negotiations in DC well, and we're talking about impacts in terms of post care for individuals and then also Quinn.

There was talk of hospitals, closing layoffs there early more rural parts of the state.

You know, don't have the same economic economic resources as Chicago.

>> And I think, you know, the state says the state cannot make up.

What federal government federal government is is providing.

Hear me out of Illinois going to be Illinois is not going save.

I mean, there are contingency plans.

The governor talked today about contingency plans, but what those are not totally yet clear.

And so I think this is a huge threat to Illinois in 2 residents.

And, you know, we've kind of been distracted by some of the, you know, higher-profile things going on in DC with Elon Musk and doege.

But this is this is really a big deal and could really impact Illinois.

>> He wanted to.

Yeah.

Medicaid is one of the biggest line items for Illinois as well as other states.

So the governor has said Illinois, first of all, can't make up for the billions.

It could potentially lose if there are changes made to Medicaid eligibility or the actual funding.

But he's also pointed out that it's not just Illinois, but it's any state in the country would not be able to backfill if the cuts were made.

So this is something that will be watching because it may not be politically feasible.

Republicans might like tax cuts, but when their residents start to hear.

>> What is going to happen?

There may be a political backlash.

Some that we are already seeing.

Violet, is that to the president's executive order that threatens to strip funding from hospitals or research institutions that perform gender affirming care for those 19 and under that he's already have an impact in Illinois house up.

>> Yeah, absolutely.

So we've been speaking to families that have had surgeries canceled.

Appointments canceled mostly at Lurie Children's Hospital, which is put a pause on surgeries, but also in Northwestern New Eye Health, which are alleged to have put a pause on surgeries on the verdict is still hawks.

They haven't given statements.

So now we're seeing that impact in, you know, these these young adults, mostly 17 to 19 who are having these surgeries canceled.

And if we look at the data, I mean, the Trevor Project in a study last year that showed that 40% of LGBTQ+ kids had considered suicide the last year.

And that number get a lot closer to 50%.

When you look at specifically trans kids.

Now, again, this data is from last year before any of this was an order.

And we're just seeing the state's 26 states currently restricting gender affirming care youth in so, you know, we're starting to see that on the national level.

Now in I know the governor asked about this is hey, don't blame the hospital's claim that the Trump administration, Illinois, is among the states that are going to court.

Can you give us any sort of >> status update in terms of is it just legal avenues or use the also been in contact with Illinois lawmakers that are looking to take action?

Yeah, for sure.

And so turning General Kwame has said that he would defend gender affirming Karen Illinois law already protects We are one of 14 states plus Washington, D.C., that currently have shield laws for gender affirming care, which means that our legal system protects patients and providers with in Illinois from outside legal Theoretically this could pitch Illinois against the federal government if they started to come after patients or providers in Illinois, that sort of fight that we're seeing play out as well as Illinois schools decide how they're going to deal with some of the state mandates for >> that teaching and even against the executive order that seeks to strike diversity, equity and inclusion from schools that are funded by the federal government Before we move on from this, Illinois did take on some health care costs that are not covered by the federal government.

And that is, of course, the starting in 2022.

With a program that provided Medicaid like coverage too undocumented immigrants.

A new audit shows that instead of costing about 4 million dollars in its first year, it was like 67 million dollars and a total of 1.6 billion dollars overall.

What does this mean and how does that fit into the overall budget picture as Illinois is supposed to be seeing later times, this is going to be tough budget season.

That is something that the administration has said.

>> And certainly health care costs have been one of the largest increases that they've seen over the last couple of years.

That's not changing anytime soon.

We've all heard about the continuous increase in health care costs.

And now with this new wild card with negotiations in DC We have to see what the full impact is going to be on the budget as the negotiations here in the states start between the governor and the legislature.

Then Republicans at the state house but has been very keen on saying that Illinois is prioritizing undocumented residents over longtime residents who have their needs to this.

>> Play into that argument or do we think Democrats are going to stand pat?

they they have stood by these programs in the past.

They have control state government.

They're not worried about it.

I think that what I've heard when we were in Springfield, you and I were just in Springfield a couple of weeks ago covering the budget proposal and everyone is very tight lipped about what they are willing to give in and what they're not going to give in Fort because it's just such a tight budget.

There's a small surplus.

But now with these changes that could come, nobody really knows.

And so they don't know what of their priorities.

They may have to give up.

So I think you probably found to that.

Everyone is pretty tight-lipped, very tight-lipped, I don't know other than a press conference is that they can have a lot to say, but maybe not the answers that we're searching Let's move on to that.

The city's been deal.

The city Council narrowly approving a plan that allows the city to take out really at 830 million dollar bond deal to pay for infrastructure upgrades.

Now there was not, however, there was, however, for strike when a lot of contentious debate, why are really quite there?

Half of all and so it gets well, I think 2 main reasons.

I think there is legitimate concern about borrowing that $139 that could cost taxpayers 2 billion dollars.

>> When it is paid back in the 2050's, I believe so.

There are some legitimate fiscal concerns.

But also I do think there is this is a political thing that's happening.

The these are alderman who are trying to score points against are they perceived as air that they perceive has kind of lost the control of the city council granted Johnson.

So I do think that people like Alderman Bill Conway and other alderman, we're really trying to score some points with this.

I'm not sure if they did will see it.

Did.

>> Very narrowly passed.

26 to 23 while them into the lock to to not vote on that.

But that follow the quick parliamentary maneuver that saw a tight to try to delay this a few months.

And the mayor, Brandon Johnson had to basically break that tie to allow this vote to go forward.

think that this is at least this 3rd tie that he's broken in his office.

I don't know of any other Chicago mayor who has had to do that in recent memory.

Even under Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who had you know, I frock is independent voices on the council when we didn't see that happen very often So this is supposed to pay for what exactly Sarah we heard alderman are not saying that this is what residents care about didn't.

Do you believe that to be true?

Was it residents that just care about their streets or are eyeing the finances?

>> Right.

So that that's the big question, right?

This is supposed to go toward streets and bridges and lighting and and all of these kind of fairly mundane.

But right, they they keep the city working.

And that's that's you know, in a lot of the rhetoric, right?

On the one hand, you have aldermen who say this is something that has to happen.

You're all the river not say this has to happen right now.

People need this right now, but that also like sure, these payments are going to be pushed out a lot of years.

But people in those future years, we're paying us back.

They're also they're gonna be benefiting from this.

That's what argument the other hand you have.

The people saying that, right, the decision not to pay back any principle and so for for 2 decades is really just kicking the can down the road.

So I think that's kind of the, you know, 2 sides of this quarter that is super PAC when we have a mayor who this is sort of a jump ball you have a mayor who is perceived to be weak to have this contentious relationship with so many members of the city Council.

>> He's still getting his way.

So is he really weak?

It was a very close vote.

And I want to point out that this isn't the first debt argument or debate.

We've had recently there was a refinancing that just occurred.

A few months ago during the budget negotiations that for the savings were supposed to be applied to the budget.

That also was contentious.

This was a second bond within the last few months.

And I've been covering this bond deal since it was introduced January.

It was the day after S P downgraded the city's credit rating.

So that was something that caught people's attention because concerns related to the structural deficit that the city is carrying and the contentious budget negotiations that have been a foot and could be coming up next in the next year as well.

So the timing of it as well as the tensions that built up during the budget have fed into 2 consecutive bond deals that have been questioned by alderman.

And I will say I do feel like the mayor here.

He doesn't really.

>> Have the standing to push for his agenda that he ran on these kind of just putting out fires in many ways.

>> And so he's, you know, doing things scraping by on boats like this.

But he's not exactly pushing forward that big ball of progressive agenda that he ran on, that he told Chicago's that he was going to enact.

They tried.

But there's been some challenges in terms of getting acceptance of those progressive revenues.

And that's a challenge for a mayor who wants to do.

>> Multiple things, whether it's for schools or for the most vulnerable.

They've tried one way that Chicago will be bringing in money, though.

Sarah is by putting up another 50 of the speed cameras.

So a warning to those you.

>> With bit of a lead foot it is this public safety or is this just a blatant money grab?

>> You know, I think the the >> it's very interesting to see Johnson turned to this as a revenue source.

Now there's there's kind of a lot of different factors at play in the political calculus.

Right.

On the one hand, you have his constituents, his his voters who his more progressive constituents to you know, they're concerned about traffic safety.

They're concerned about pedestrian cyclist.

They see this as a as a safety measure.

On the other hands.

You have a lot of people who see this as a very regressive way to raise money.

They say that there have been a lot of reports low income people, people of color are disproportionately paying tickets issued by these cameras.

So then, of course, you have the the city's budget issues that financial issues at play here.

So all of these are factors that certainly Johnson was weighing as as he made this decision.

you know what?

What we've seen is that they're moving forward.

So so there we go, island, go ahead.

always say I think it's interesting that he's turning to it now.

I mean, this has been, you know, a regular thing that the last 4 mayoral administrations have turned to, whether it's red light cameras or speed cameras.

>> But Johnson balance both swore them off on the campaign.

Actually the last debate of the campaign.

And so to see him turn towards this pretty solid, steady revenue stream seemingly despite the fact that most of the money brought in is from late fees and things like that.

We still know the equity.

The question on that is still out on comes, of course, right after the city failed to change the standard speed limit with some of these very same arguments popping up for it.

>> Now, Quinn, you talked about the mayor not really getting his agenda through, but he is getting some appointment picks through.

It seems he had threatened sort of a purge of anybody who is disloyal and now we see turnover at the Chicago Park district.

Is it part of that and what can you share about?

>> The newly appointed former alderperson thing that you know, I do the mayor to make those comments about, you know, if you ain't with us, you got to >> Is it is, you know, Reza strain, it was a holdover from the light for the ministration.

She came into basic, you know, in some ways clean up the park district after lifeguard abuse scandal.

>> She had previously worked a commissioner at the business Affairs Department has a long resume at the city.

He's only praised her publicly.

But, you know, he is now installing a very close ally Alderman Carlos Ramirez.

Rest of the levels where all the who is one of the most prominent progressives in Chicago, certainly in the city council, was the first Democratic socialist to be elected back in 2015 and has definitely Spartan had some tension with mayors and their alderman.

But, you know, as talked on the phone today and he told some of his accomplishments making Logan Square, you know, preserving it for people again, certification and adding check different bike lanes and things like that.

So he was approved appointed today and approved by the Park District board.

And that's pretty much it.

They're going to negotiate a contract and he will take over on April first from screen.

Now Mayor Johnson will have his first chance to appoint a new alderman.

I'm that is now his duty.

He's pledging it community led process will see who that might be.

Rumors are kind of looking at a county commissioner because Adam, who is a close to Carla Summers, Rowe said that we don't really know yet who could take over the 35th.

to be watching here in terms of what is in that contract, how much Ramirez Rosas will be paid.

And then, of course, that pick.

>> As Johnson can vary, so really used to have another at least keep in place an ally on the city council.

>> Now moving to another transportation matters are back to you.

Thank goodness that it was a near Miss credit to the professionalism of the Southwest flight.

But how did a Southwest plane have to abort landing in order to avoid a collision with a jacket that Midway airport.

What?

Yes.

So if if you guys have seen the video which has been been widely circulating.

>> was scary.

Looking great.

a big commercial southwest jet almost on the ground.

We'll wheels very nearly touching down.

And then all of a sudden you just see this small business kind of poking out in front of it.

Southwest you know, immediately pulls back up.

right, feds are investigating the FAA.

The NTSB, they're still investigating.

But the FAA has already said that that business jet was on the runway without authorization.

And the NTSB chair has been actually more direct.

She it appeared that the crew of the business jet.

didn't listen to to air traffic control instructions south.

So is how a rare, though, is something like this.

And given that we have had this sort of stream, it feels like of frightening incidents.

>> Is this a sign of stress in the system or a one-off?

You know, it certainly the past couple weeks have been a little scary for for anyone who wants to fly.

Coming up.

You know, I took a look at some FAA records related to midway >> There are there are there have been runway kind of incidents in the past where people end up on runways.

They're not supposed to be on plans.

Get too close together.

Helicopters, vehicles, they all get too close together.

It does happen.

Certainly.

You never want to see something as close as what this week.

But something when I when I talked to some aviation experts, something that they tell me you know, they always point out that that it wasn't a disaster and that's kind of a testament to the training that pilots go through the regulation of the industry and just kind of how how much.

>> Everybody is trained to handle situations that go awry to to try to keep them from getting even worse than they could potentially be.

Anybody planning to fly him feeling?

Okay.

I just got back from a trip.

I was a It was okay.

I was a little nervous.

But looking thank I'm glad you're glad everything is Let's talk about some extraordinary scene.

This is not quite the same style of footage.

But wow, if you watched it play out, President Trump.

>> And Vice President meeting west of the Ukrainian president and really started literally him saying that you are not thankful enough.

What is your reaction?

Fila to what we saw today play out the Oval Office?

I mean, it's it's jarring and you know, but this is kind of I think what people are expecting with from coming back into office.

This is, you know, I mean, obviously it's it's stepped But this has been his kind of style of leadership, I guess you could say.

And making.

Yes.

Yeah.

So I'm not sure that it's it's entirely shocking to see.

But it still is.

>> And Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley said that Trump is siding with a dictator Putin over standing with democracy saying what just happened in the Oval Office was one of the most embarrassing moments in American history.

The world order that was established after the second World War is dead.

those are some major statements.

I know you covered a vigil earlier this week with Ukrainian Americans and other Chicago residents marking that three-year anniversary of the war or what do you expect?

Because even prior to this meeting, of course, there had been some tensions.

We'll what the reaction.

I mean, there's some irony that it's coming with this anniversary of the invasion.

It's >> such a fraught time for Ukraine.

And at the vigil I was at at Holy Name Cathedral on Monday night.

Everyone there is feeling and Cardinal Blase Cupich is not Ukraine, but you know, is the Archbishop of Chicago.

He called out Trump pretty much as directly as you can without naming someone.

He said we must stand with the truth.

And the truth is that Ukraine is not the aggressor and that Russia is the aggressor basically could condemn spreading misinformation.

like honestly, our president has done by claiming that Ukraine was the one that started the war.

So everyone in that cathedral was scared, angry.

I talked to a ton of people who called Trump a bully who said that they were inspired to come, not just as it to show faith and show solidarity with their Ukrainian family or friends back in Ukraine but also to stand up for what they believe is the truth.

But it is really a fraught time for Ukraine.

I think today's meeting made it much Definitely laughs at early reaction from some Republicans.

Is that?

>> So this guy should be more grateful express that appreciation and gratitude to Trump into the United States.

>> Now, pilots over to you because there was an election this or at least a primary an embattled but very unabashedly public precinct herself.

Mayor, that is tiffany 100 of Colton lost.

What can you share in terms of?

How she went so quickly from being a beloved been elected mayor to somebody that voters ousted.

>> Yeah.

So she actually came into the same situation that her now likely successor was coming in, too.

So she accused Riley Rogers, the former mayor of mismanaging count funds.

He was an 8 year trustee, Jason Houses coming into this election in the exact same situation except he ran on the ticket with endured and 2021.

Obviously, in that time we've you know, the allegations, federal probes, different things like that.

And a lot has changed in those 4 years.

And so we saw a really strong rebuke of her on 88% of the vote went to Jason House versus 12% for her.

But even bigger take away as that voter turnout actually increased.

There were 80% more voters in this election than 101 with 82% of the vote in 2021.

So not only are we seeing a repeat of this embattled mayor, but we're also seeing a town that's more involved.

And I season they have a role and selecting their, you know, future in just in the brief time that we have left.

You are there on election night until we hear at all from your head.

You're didn't show up to her own election night party.

It was pretty quiet.

There was a DJ going.

A few people coming in.

The foods felt very Jason Houses, election Night Party had a little bit of a different vibe.

It was packed wall to wall people shouting singing, watching the results.

Come in on project or so.

Yeah, very, very different vibes on Tuesday in the shooting.

We have 30 seconds left.

But I wanted to quick gives a word former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, who announced that he's battling pancreatic cancer.

>> Just briefly, what Hallmark did he have on Illinois as he continues to fight the U.S. and its finances?

>> Well, I think there was a people.

We talk about Edgar ramp for pensions.

That's a big one in terms of the fiscal matters.

And I think he was also one of the governors that really worked across the aisle.

That's one of the things that people have always talked about.

Republican governor working with Democrats and fiscal stewardship as well.

So we do wish our best, of course, to Governor Edgar with that.

We are out of time.

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You also reported on Metra spending more than 1.5 million dollars on investigation.

>> Not releasing the details to the public that what is this investigating Well, that's the million dollar question.

The one and a half million dollar question yeah, you know it.

We know it was scammed by anonymous complaints against the police department, but that's about it.

that Trez refusing to say anything else they're using to release the results.

They're citing attorney client privilege so we we don't know a lot of questions island.

This is as they are searching for money from the state for all public transit.

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