Lynn Sweet

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Lynn Sweet

WASHINGTON — Do not underestimate the dire times we are in. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are testing the limits and finding few as they dismantle government institutions with little care for Congress, the courts, or your grandmother in a nursing home where Medicaid pays the bill because she has run out of her lifetime savings. Gov.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Lynn Sweet

WASHINGTON — The hype didn’t pan out. The advance publicity put out by the GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — including a scary movie style video trailer — promised to pummel the Democratic mayors of Chicago, New York, Boston and Denver, all sanctuary cities. But they emerged mainly unscathed from the six-hour plus hearing Wednesday, called to bash them for not cooperating with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation raids.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Matt Moore |Lynn Sweet |Dan Tucker |Kaitlin Washburn

Mayor Brandon Johnson has been in Washington, D.C., since Sunday preparing for a high-stakes congressional hearing Wednesday before a GOP-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The committee also invited the mayors of New York, Boston and Denver, who will appear with Johnson. In today’s newsletter: What you need to know about Johnson’s upcoming testimony.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Fran Spielman |Mariah Woelfel |Lynn Sweet |Adriana Cardona-Maguigad

Mayor Brandon Johnson faces what is expected to be an aggressive attack on Chicago’s sanctuary city policy at a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing today in Washington, D.C.Johnson will appear before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at 9 a.m. Chicago time to defend the city’s law that, in part, restricts police from detaining people solely based on their immigration status — a policy that has been in place since 1985.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Lynn Sweet

El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. | The place for coverage of Latino news and culture in Chicago. El alcalde Brandon Johnson ha estado en Washington D.C. desde el domingo preparándose para una audiencia de alto riesgo en el Congreso el miércoles ante un Comité de Supervisión y Reforma Gubernamental de la Cámara controlado por el Partido Republicano.