>> Mayor Brandon Johnson is back to the drawing board after City council unanimously voted against a 300 million dollar hike to property taxes.

Meanwhile, state officials are pushing back on President-elect Donald Trump's promise to execute mass deportations in the trial of Michael Madigan is in its 5th week with the end, not quite in sight yet here with all that and more is our spotlight.

Politics team, Heather Sharon and Nick Bloomberg.

Welcome back team as always.

So we mentioned this unanimous vote by the Chicago City you know, sending negotiations over the city spending plan for 2025.

Back to square one.

Let's listen to what the mayor had to say about what other people should do now.

>> just going to say this I know is going up, my folks at McCombs team.

But, you know, some of the steps and measures that are being taken.

These are some of visions of having tantrums right now.

It's time to grow up.

People.

Chicago have time for that.

>> Tough talk from the mayor, Heather.

So he said that negotiations over the weekend positive.

Where do things stand?

Well, he has offered to cut that property tax hike as we heard in half to 150 million dollars.

But that still leaves another 150 million dollars.

And it's not clear that 26 members of the city Council will vote to approve budget that includes any level of property tax.

But as I've said before, the city has only limited ways to raise money.

Now there's a proposal floating out there to increase the city's least tax on computing services.

That goes to go from 9% to 11% to raise about 128 million dollars.

However, you can only sort of increase those smaller taxes so much.

And the mayor again today ruled off any budget plan that lays off city employees, orders them to take furloughs or cut city services.

That means there are only a limited number of options and a limited number of days to get this done.

The deadline to pass a budget is 6 weeks from today.

December 31st.

And the holidays are coming stances on Islam.

The CTA right as we know, right?

It did slow things down when the holidays approach had to remind us how we got to this point.

Well, the city's finances have long been out of whack with expenses, particularly pensions outpacing revenues.

So the city had to close 928 million dollars worth of budget gap.

So right now that gap is somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 million dollars because the city council rejected that property tax hike.

However, everything is basically up for grabs.

You have some older people saying the city should use what's left of the city's COVID-19 relief funds.

You have other older people saying there should be deep cuts.

Other older people don't want to make an additional pension payment that would help the city sort of bring up those funded ratios and relieved that crisis.

Everything's on the table there.

But there is only a limited number of ways to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in 6 weeks.

I think I think it's gonna be really interesting to see whether council members and up sort of taking that.

>> Easy way out.

And, you know, neglecting to make that additional pension payment because of that, something that the mayor, you know, goes against.

That is another of the issues that he has really made a centerpiece of his, you know, budgeting saying that the city's budget has long been out of whack, as you said, that there had been all these structural problems created by past administrations that looking at the Emanuel and the Daley administration before it and get and they failed to address these problems.

Well, if you go along with a plan that doesn't make that additional pension payment, arguably, that is more of the same kind of, you know, short-term focus on budgeting rather than trying to deal with some of the structural problems.

But it is certainly one way to ease the tension, use attention, sort of ban dating or like you patching up the Just one problem while not fully addressing another one.

Heather, as we mentioned earlier, there's been a growing chorus of people who are concerned that the proposed budget would >> would hurt progress on the Chicago Police Department's consent decree, including Attorney General Kwame Raoul who sent a letter to the mayor.

You asked the mayor about that today.

What did he I asked if he regretted making those cuts because they are unacceptable to basically everyone in charge implementing the consent decree and he just declined to say that he did.

He said, look, they're up for negotiations.

>> We're sort of negotiating this.

But I also asked whether that this is an indication that he's not fully committed to implementing the consent decree, which, of course, is designed to stop Chicago police officers from routinely violating the constitutional rights of black and Latino Chicagoans.

And again, he said, look, I am committed to constitutional policing.

I think the question is how much are you willing to pay to make that a reality?

And how much can the city afford to do that this year?

And it's going to be interesting to see if this, you know, becomes a larger political fight between, you know, one of Illinois's top statewide elected Democrats.

And, you know, the mayor of its most populous city.

>> You know, we should remember this consent decree is being enforced by the Illinois Attorney General's office because it first, you know, this investigation got kicked off during the Obama administration.

You know, after the, you know, the murder of Laquan McDonald.

>> But this was, you know, essentially dropped by the Trump DOJ and the state AG picked it up.

So it's going to be interesting to see now that this is something being locally enforced.

If there are these cuts and this blows up into a wider disagreement, further tensions between statewide dams and Mayor Johnson.

>> Nick, we also heard from Mayor Johnson.

We heard him reiterate that Chicago would remain a sanctuary city.

We know the Governor Pritzker has been out front on this, pushing back against President elect Trump's promise for mass deportations.

What is he said?

Well, President Trump has floated the idea of a national emergency allowing him to call out the military on U.S. soil, which would be.

>> And extraordinary measure to use, you know, the military members to, you know, round folks up for deportation.

Pritzker said that is potentially illegal unconstitutional.

That's something he says he's investigating.

Pushing back on.

There's also the notion that Trump might call out the National Guard.

Of course, governors are the ones who call out the National Guard.

Certainly there will be plenty of sympathetic Republican governors who are willing to go along with this plan.

But, you know, Pritzker's raising the alarm here saying Trump cannot do this on his own and it would also be an incredibly, you know, extraordinary, unprecedented.

We're tired of saying these words and really unusual measure, if, you know, say a neighboring state called out the National Guard and deployed them to another state.

Heather were in the 5th week of the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Jurors heard about a number of his allies who received about 1.3 million dollars from Con Ed.

>> What are they trying to show here?

Well, they're trying to show that basically when he was speaker of the House, Michael Madigan was running a criminal operation that was designed to trade official actions rate hikes, other sort of legislative deals.

>> In return for making sure that his friends and allies got no work, furlough work jobs.

Now later this week, perhaps as early as tomorrow we will hear from disgraced former alderman didn't Danny Solis who went basically undercover as a government will not only in the investigation of Matt again, but also the former Alderman Burke who is currently incarcerated and we will hear sort of how he sort of work to to sort gather information on that.

Again, what is truly going to be a seminal moment of this trial, which is going to continue well into the new year.

It appears so.

Knicks ETA just past its 2025 operating budget, but not without some criticism from the board.

What were their concerns and how to the CTA president respond?

Yeah, the budget itself is, you know, fairly low drama.

But the board really expressed some consternation with Carter.

>> Over the issue of security services of making sure that riders who they are desperately trying to draw back boost those ridership levels to pre.

>> You know, pandemic heights, they want to make sure that folks feel secure.

We should note crime is way down on the CTA.

You know, there certainly was a spike in recent years, but that problem has significantly abated, you know, CTA officials have deployed private security firms.

And, you know, there's been some criticism of the board saying, yeah, these folks aren't really doing that much.

They're often citing complaints, both that they've witnessed and that other people saying that they're not, you know, dealing with passengers who are perhaps violating the rules, smoking playing loud music being disruptive, being dangerous.

So there's been some pushback on that.

They say we want to see metrics.

We do not have a clear sense of where these folks are deployed.

We want and they also want to see more about sort of preventative measures instead of just having the, you know, either more CPD deployed or private security deployed, they want and pushed in fact, in a sort of a last-minute change to get 3 million dollars of the security contract diverted to preventive measures.

So we will see how that plays out.

But they're really clear with Carter that they don't feel like they are in the loop on this and they want more.

>> heard from, you know, many legislators and, you know, we just discussed Governor JB Pritzker and some other governors are trying to sort of Trump proof their state policies, CTA officials at all thinking about, you know, what a Trump administration might mean for transportation is area will.

Certainly the big ticket item is that 5.6 mile redline extension that will finally carry the train passed 95th Street to cover the full far South side.

>> They are in the final steps of getting 1.9 billion dollars in federal grant funding for this.

And they are really racing to get this done before the Biden administration hands over the keys, if you will, of the Department of Transportation to make sure that much needed funding for the project comes through.

President Carter, CTA officials expressing confidence that they could get this done.

They also said with that red purple modernization project that's going on right now, they were in the same position in 2016, 2017.

They managed to get it done on a tight time frame.

There are certainly other issues, other areas that they are concerned about that they're bracing for.

But that really in the near term, they need that 1.9 billion dollars for this project to move forward.

All right.

hopefully seeing how