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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson testifies in DC at sanctuary city hearing
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson was in the hot seat in Washington D.C. Wednesday, where he testified before a Republican-led congressional committee on Chicago's sanctuary city policies.
Chicago Tribune9d
Mayor Brandon Johnson defends Chicago’s sanctuary laws in GOP-led congressional hearing
It’s grandstanding.” The mayor also invoked Chicago’s Black history, shouting out its Haitian founder, the explorer Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, and his Potawatomi wife before ending his ...
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Chicago Mayor Johnson defends spending on migrant crisis during Capitol Hill hearings
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson defended spending taxpayer dollars on maintaining a welcoming city while being interrogated Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee in Washington. Tens of ...
Chicago Tribune6d
Chicago observers relieved a reserved Mayor Brandon Johnson achieved ‘a draw’ with congressional Republicans
By the end of the six-hour hearing, the consensus in Chicago was that the former labor organizer-turned-mayor succeeded where he had earlier stumbled. “He did what he needed to do, and the main ...
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Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel slams city leaders for fixating on niche liberal issues while crime spirals
Former Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ripped the Chicago city leadership on “Real Time with Bill Maher” this week. Emanuel said on Friday night that government has allowed the city to ...
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Heavily scripted Mayor Johnson survives congressional hot seat on Chicago's sanctuary city policy
Instead, the mayor’s testimony often sounded scripted in a showing that nevertheless accomplished the embattled Chicago mayor’s main goal: to simply get through it. La Voz Sidebar Lee este ...
AOL8d
WATCH: Chicago mayor defends sanctuary policies at Congressional hearing
Chicago’s budget rose from $16.6 billion in 2024 to $17.1 billion for 2025. City Budget Director Annette Guzman said last year that the city spent $1.4 million a day on new arrivals for several ...
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Chicago alderman says Mayor Brandon Johnson can't defend sanctuary city policies: 'Lamb to the slaughter'
A Chicago alderman said Mayor Brandon Johnson has "no defense" ahead of his congressional testimony on the sanctuary city's policies. "As far as the mayor going to D.C., he's going like a lamb ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson defends Chicago's immigration policies on Capitol Hill; "Chicago is and always has been a proud city of immigrants."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proudly defended Chicago's sanctuary city status on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as he testified before a congressional committee on the city's immigration policies ...
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Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
Former Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ripped the Chicago city leadership on "Real Time with Bill Maher" this week. Emanuel said on Friday night that government has allowed the city to ...
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Heavily scripted Mayor Johnson survives congressional hot seat on Chicago's sanctuary city policy
A heavily rehearsed Mayor Brandon Johnson survived Wednesday’s congressional interrogation from conservative lawmakers who grilled Democratic mayors representing sanctuary cities, as President ...
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What Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said in his testimony before Congress
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faced questioning before federal lawmakers in Congress on Wednesday, defending the “Welcoming City” ordinance that has drawn Republican ire. In his opening ...