>> A plan to bridge Chicago's billion dollar budget gap without hiking taxes on large firms would leave the city with a deficit of more than 163 million dollars.

That's according to Mayor Brandon Johnson's office.

The mayor is calling the plan, which is headed to a final vote, speculative infeasible and immoral.

Our Heather Sharon joins us now with the latest as 13 are as all the people rather have just 13 days left to pass a budget.

So Heather, the City Council's finance committee voted 22 to 13 yesterday to send that budget crafted by a group of older people opposing the mayor to the full city council.

Is that budget balanced?

It depends on who you ask.

If you ask the mayor, he will tell you.

Absolutely not.

And budget director and that Kuzma and Chief Financial Officer Kei spent most of this afternoon explaining in painstaking detail.

>> To use older people why their budget plan was not based in reality.

They did not get a receptive audience.

And that is essentially the crux of why it is just 13 days until the deadline.

No one believes anyone else.

Nobody agrees with the facts of the city's financial condition are, although they do agree, it's not well, I think most of us agree but pretty tough otherwise to come to a consensus, you know, this plan, it eliminates the mayor's proposal to levy a $33 month per employee tax on companies with 500 or more employees.

It would pay 140 million dollars more toward cities, pensions.

How to its supporters make up that difference.

So it's really a complicated plan.

The biggest line item would be an expectation that that Kid City could collect nearly 90 million dollars more in debt from Chicagoans.

Now, the mayor's team says we share that goal.

The people who have violated the city's laws should pay what they owe.

They just don't agree that collecting an additional 90 million dollars next year as possible, especially because the mayor's budget already expects to collect 100 million dollars more next year than they did last year.

Thanks to enhanced enforcement efforts.

Now the mayor says he's worried that that means that Chicago's poor assist the poor Chicagoans will face hectoring from third-party debt collection firms.

He says that's not the right way to bring the city.

You know, we heard some strong words from the mayor in the opening.

There could vocab words to out Mayor Johnson says if the city council passes the spending plan, the city's immediately going to find itself just mired in red ink.

>> Do we expect he'll veto it?

Well, he hasn't said one way or the other.

He canceled a press conference this afternoon where he certainly would have been asked that question.

>> Perhaps there are things going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to, but it's not clear how to balance the budget without raising significant taxes on Chicagoans, either individuals or corporations.

And nobody agrees what that package should look like.

All right, that the clock is ticking here.

So what happens next?

revenue side of the plan, the taxes and everything could head to the city council as soon as tomorrow.

We don't expect substantive votes.

But the actual legislation that spends that money, no idea when that will make to city