A Black woman wearing a red "Make America Great Again" cowboy hat blasted Mayor Brandon Johnson for his spending spree on migrants. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
"We need that money in my neighborhood, we need that money on my block," railed one Black woman wearing a red "Make America Great Again" cowboy hat. "So I’m asking ya’ll to use our tax money for our people, we need it."
Another Black woman, donning a "No More Blue Go Red" top, issued a strong warning to aldermen.
"Vote for the money for these immigrants today and we coming for those seats, you can believe that," she said. "You better be worrying about your job, you better be worrying about your longevity because we gonna vote and we gonna getcha out, cos you ain’t doing right by us, that’s what time it is."
The $70 million, should the full City Council approve the proposal, will be drawn from the city’s assigned fund balance from 2022, Budget Director Annette Guzman said Monday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Johnson pinned the city’s financial woes on the federal government’s failure to come to its aid. City projections from late last year showed it on course to run deficits of up to $1.5 billion and $1.9 billion for 2025.
"We have what we have. We don’t have an inordinate amount of reserves," Johnson said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "This has been a strain on Chicago."
Nearly 40,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since August 2022, according to the city’s "New Arrivals Situational Awareness Dashboard."
Dan Boland, a former technology salesman, is leading an effort for a ballot referendum to recall Mayor Brandon Johnson. (Fox News)
Boland’s petition drive needs to collect 56,464 valid signatures by Aug. 5 for the question to go on the ballot in November.
He says he has been inundated with support from people of all backgrounds.
"We've never had this opportunity to recall before and its very apparent based on the mayor's abilities right now, or lack of accountability, that this needs to be addressed," he added.
Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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