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Capitol News Illinois: Illinois won’t take part in Trump’s payroll tax deferral program
Illinois plans to continue withholding federal payroll taxes on behalf of its 62,000 employees despite a program President Trump launched in August that allows workers to defer paying those taxes through the end of the year.
“I’m not supporting a deferral that would double workers taxes after January and put Social Security further at risk. I mean, that’s essentially what this would do,” Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza said during an interview Thursday.
Chicago Sun-Times: Poisoned pen pals? Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on letter recapping fed’s rules in Madigan hearings
Democratic and Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday made a stab at collaborating on a letter memorializing a telephone conversation in which U.S. Attorney John Lausch spelled out what he considered off limits in their legislative probe of state House Speaker Mike Madigan’s dealings with ComEd.
By the end of the day, the two political parties settled on the best way to handle their vastly different takes on that Monday discussion with the area’s top federal prosecutor.
WBEZ: The government is protecting renters but who is looking out for landlords?
Frank Celio owns a brown and beige single-family home in Hegewisch, a working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s Far South Side just blocks from the Illinois-Indiana state line.
He said his father used to live in the home, nestled in the middle of the block on the quiet, tree-lined street. Today, Celio said he rents the home — and wants to evict the tenants.