In recent weeks, my team at the Chicago treasurer’s office and I worked tirelessly to craft our budget for City Council review. This work was conducted amid the backdrop of our federal government waging a campaign of terror against our residents and taxpayers.

I believe we have a responsibility to use every lawful tool at our disposal to push back on what they are doing. At the treasurer’s office, that tool is our investment portfolio. The dollars we invest can either quietly support that behavior or send a clear message that Chicago will not bankroll its own abuse.

Before my budget presentation on Wednesday, I informed City Council members that I would boycott the purchase of United States Treasury securities and seek their authority to grant me freedoms to modify the portfolio of the

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