Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.77 billion budget received final approval from the Chicago City Council. The budget focuses on progressive policies while maintaining property taxes and increasing police spending. Supporters see it as a step towards addressing the needs of forgotten constituents, while dissenters criticize its sustainability and question the effectiveness of new investments.
Mayor Brandon Johnson ’s $16.77 billion budget got the final stamp of approval from the Chicago City Council on Wednesday, in a relatively easy vote that followed a wide-ranging debate on the trajectory of the city and the progressive mayor’s budding agenda. Aldermen voted 41-8 in favor of Johnson’s 2024 spending plan, which he framed as a gradual introduction to the bold, leftist promises from his mayoral campaign while holding the line on property taxes and slightly increasing police spending .
In the discussion ahead of the vote, supporters heralded the package as the beginning of a new Chicago that will take care of its forgotten constituents and implement alternative approaches to fighting crime and poverty. Dissenters, however, dinged his one-time strategies for plugging in a $538 million deficit as unsustainable and questioned the utility of his new investments, underscoring the widening divide between Johnson’s progressive bloc of aldermen and their moderate and conservative colleague
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