Mayor Brandon Johnson signaled Friday that he is forging ahead with his plan to put his 2026 proposed budget to bed by Thanksgiving, even after the City Council’s most powerful member declared her opposition to a corporate head tax at “any level.”

Finance Chair Pat Dowell, alderperson of the 3rd Ward and a member of Johnson’s handpicked leadership team, joined Gov. JB Pritzker, business leaders and their City Council allies in opposing Johnson’s newly revised plan to impose the $21 a month per-employee tax only on Chicago companies with 200 or more employees.

“I don’t support the head tax at any level,” Dowell told the Chicago Sun-Times. “It’s a tax on jobs.”

Dowell said she has no idea whether Johnson has the votes to push the head tax through her committee over her objections.

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