Trump supporter slams Chicago mayor to his face moments before City Council rejected tax hike: The feds need to address you
Ahead of a Chicago City Council vote unanimously rejecting Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax hike, local residents addressed the council and the mayor, criticizing Johnson to his face over trying to raise taxes while catering to illegal immigrants.Among these angry locals were several supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, who, while wearing MAGA gear, gloated about how Trump’s victory means Johnson’s liberal policies – particularly those assisting illegal immigrants – will face a reckoning. “The feds need to address you! The DOJ needs to address you! And hopefully Donald Trump will address you, because you’re gonna protect the undocumented, while you’re gonna allow for the citizens in Chicago suffer under your, what? Three percent?” Chicago resident Tyjuan Sims told the mayor on Thursday night.Clips of the council meeting can be viewed here.Chicago residents have been angry with Johnson and other city officials for some time now, especially over policies allocating taxpayer money to benefit illegal immigrants that have flooded the city in recent years.Locals blistered the Chicago City Council at a meeting in February after city and state officials had approved hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to feed, clothe and house more than 35,000 migrants who have been transported to Chicago and its suburbs in the prior year-and-a-half.“They’re junking up our country.And yeah, we feel some kind of way about it because it’s our country,” one Chicago resident said at the time.
“We’re going to get them out of our communities because they don’t deserve to be there.” The City Council convened the special meeting this week to vote on Johnson’s property tax hike proposal with less than two months before the city has to pass a new city budget.In a historic repudiation, all 50 City Council members voted against Johnson’s $300 million tax hike that would have increased Chicago homeowners’ expenses by ...