CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's a proposed budget some Chicago City Council members have continued to call dead on arrival because it includes a corporate head tax.

Despite the opposition from at least half of the council, Governor JB Pritzker, civic and business groups, Mayor Brandon Johnson refuses to budge.

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"It is deeply disturbing right now that we have leaders in this state that are prepared to defend millionaires and billionaires and not the people in Austin and not the people in Roseland, what is wrong with us?" Johnson said.

In a fiery response to questions from reporters, Johnson says Tuesday's election night democratic victories in New York and other municipalities is proof people want his model of governing, which the mayor says

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