Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s ‘Pandemic’ Chicago Budget Passes in Narrow Vote
The Chicago City Council narrowly passed Lightfoot’s $13 billion budget, which includes $94 million in higher property taxes and massive borrowing.
The Chicago City Council narrowly passed Lightfoot’s $13 billion budget, which includes $94 million in higher property taxes and massive borrowing.
The Chicago City Council is poised to vote on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s $12.8 billion spending plan this week.
President-elect Joe Biden has begun to make his selections for key roles in his cabinet. He announced his picks for secretary of state and the ambassador to the United Nations. And he chose the first Latino to head the Department of Homeland Security, and the first woman for to be the director of national intelligence.This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and state department correspondent Michele Keleman.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Illinois’ longtime house speaker aims to hold power, but new indictments touching his inner circle have possible successors circling.
Trump is sitting down with the leaders of the Michigan legislature ahead of the state canvassing board meeting on Monday, where the election results are expected to be certified. He apparently hopes the GOP-controlled Legislature will appoint their own electors and overturn the popular vote. At a White House press briefing Friday, the press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied Trump would be pressuring the Michigan lawmakers.Sidney Powell, a member of Trump’s legal team, told Lou Dobbs of Fox Business on Thursday, “The entire election frankly in all the swing states should be overturned, and the legislatures should make sure that the electors are selected for Trump.” Also, what will the Department of Justice look like under Joe Biden?This episode: correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Reset breaks down the biggest local stories of the week in our Friday News Roundup.
Lightfoot’s 2021 budget plan passed out of the city’s Budget Committee.
The Muslim vote seems to be just as divided as the rest of the country.
Who voted — and how they voted — reveals a lot about the present and future of American democracy.
As President Trump refuses to concede the election Joe Biden won, Biden warns that that lack of cooperation on the transition could lead to even more deaths from the coronavirus.This episode: reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, correspondent Scott Detrow, and White House Franco Ordoñez.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.