The DeVory Darkins Show - Bombshell budget shortfall CRUSHES Chicago Mayor

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

Chicago Mayor suffers FINANCIAL BLOW after bombshell budget shortfall. This comes after Chicago is in a financial deficit and the Mayor Gaslights everyone. EPISODE SPONSOR: Join the Angel Guild today. Go to http://angel.com/darkins FOLLOW ME:⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠[e-mail]⁠

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Because match days are about the shared moments. How did Jameson to your match day lineup? Jameson, it's what you bring. Please enjoy our products responsibly. All right, let's go to Mayor Brandon Johnson, because this is another financial blow. This is what happens when your focus is on illegal immigration, sanctuary city policies, funding woke programs, and not actually taking care of the people of Chicago as it pertains to crime, as it pertains to public safety. As it pertains to the education system, as we know, Chicago public schools is also in a deficit by $1 billion. So I think we're not shocked at this point.

But this is another blow to the mayor. Let's take a look at this now. On the money watch, Mayor Brandon Johnson says Chicago is falling short of its revenue projections for 2026. The goal was to build something stronger, more stable, and more honest for the long term. But corporate-aligned members of the city council chose a different direction and adopted their so-called alternative budget. I want to say this clearly, there were other options. the mayor wait so you're blaming the city council i'm not i'm not understanding where he's going with that like he he's not going to look at where the money's been going of course because to do that would be

looking in the mirror you know what's interesting about government and the budget it's every person on an individual level knows the problem because we've all done it to ourselves we live above our means, we take on liabilities, we shouldn't, then we're in denial about our situation, or we become arrogant about it. Either way, we do it to ourselves. It's financial literacy. Assets should exceed liabilities. Well, I don't think socialism, or the socialist like Brandon Johnson's interested in that lesson. And by the way, who knows how much he spends on his own private security. report shows the city is 32 million under budget on revenues through the first half of the year. You recall city council passed the 2026 budget over Mayor Johnson's objections.

He says some of their revenue sources, such as selling city debt and selling ads on bridges, haven't raised a single dollar. Johnson didn't say how he would close the gap, only that he wants to avoid layoffs or service cuts. So Chicago public schools, the education system is underwater. the city's underwater. They can't make any more money. I wonder why that is. Incompetence, that's why. Misplace priorities. And I'll give you an example of a misplaced priority. Because instead of the mayor taking responsibility for what happened, he's blaming city council. He's the one who sets the goals. He's the one that sets the objectives. He's the one that sets

the priorities. Doesn't seem like that's working. morning from Mayor Johnson about the 2026 budget. It's $130 million short. The mayor pens the underperformance on revenue passed by his city council opponents. Remember, City Council rejected Mayor Johnson's progressive revenue, such as a corporate head tax in favor of an alternative budget. That plan took effect without the mayor signing it. At the time, the mayor warned the budget was not balanced. And here we are at the midway point in the budget year, and the mayor points to poor performance from advertising and debt sale. If you need advertising and debt sale to make your revenue goals, you're already in trouble.

So that's number one. Number two, that city is a mess. The fact that an NFL team, the Chicago Bears who have been there longer than I've been alive, is having to move. And then you have, like I just stated, the public school system is underwater. crime is still an issue. Illegal immigration is still an issue. I mean, what other metrics do you need to show a mayor who's way over his head and is a failing mayor? And by the way, his approval rating proves that as well.

But people of Chicago, will you vote any differently? Will you allow someone to even be different than Mayor Brandon Johnson and Lori Lightfoot? Okay, so let's get into his excuses, or essentially what he wants to focus on now. Do you want to start today by reemphasizing how grateful that, how grateful I am that Chicago experienced a safer Fourth of July weekend, a weekend that has created a great deal of joy around our city. Really? Yeah, he's living in. another planet. He's living in another planet. So no wonder he can't manage the budget. No wonder he's got fraud, waste, and abuse happening under his administration. No wonder the school system's underwater.

No wonder that the people of Chicago are fed up with him, which is why they're having to sign petitions to get criminals off the streets. And no wonder the teen takeovers continue to happen. He's all over the place. Well, part of the reason why he's all over the place is because his is also all over the place, and that would be J.B. Pritzker. In fact, Pritzker, this is his message that he's been staying with. This actually dates back to last year, where he tells people, if you don't like what's happening in Chicago or Illinois, for that matter, then leave. I'm sorry that people want to make a spectacle of themselves by claiming that they're going to leave the state. Look, if you want to leave the state, I would like you to stay. I'd like you to get

involved and make it a better place by working together with us. But if you want to leave, then get step and move, and there's no chance that you're going to pick up a county and have it join another state. As you guys already know, America only turns 250 wants, and to celebrate Angel Studios is doing something pretty incredible. Right now, they're offering a premium Angel Guild membership for just $15 a month, normally $20 with that savings locked in for an entire year. And here's what you get for that, two free tickets to see Young Washington in theaters this Independence Day, access to Angels' entire streaming library and tickets to every future Angel release. So take action this Independence Day.

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And I do believe there are good people there. And I do believe they deserve better. And I don't believe they're all bad. I don't believe they actually trust Brennan Johnson. You know, it is what it is. And here's the other thing about it. Just so we're clear. The city of Chicago, they have a paradigm of corruption and failed mayors,

one after another. It's been happening for quite some time now. I don't even think they know how to pick a good mayor today. Like just the last three were plagued with high-level corruption schemes. Failed leadership regarding public safety. I mean, we can go on and on and on. And so I don't even know if they even know how to pick the proper mayor moving forward. It's kind of like a team who doesn't know how to win because they don't see themselves as winners.

because if you're just, and I just have to go there, if you're a black person in the city of Chicago, how could you support Mayor Brandon Johnson at this point? How? How? Even if I fed into your belief, or their belief, that is, that we need to focus on the black agenda, black excellence, even if I said, you know what, let me go there, right? Let me start thinking like that person. I still wouldn't trust Mayor Brandon Johnson. He's failed everyone except himself. He has what he needs, right? He's got enough money for his private security.

He's got everything one would want as a mayor. But do the people have what they want? No. So he's a failure. All right. Let's go to the president. Here's the president saying he's probably going to strike Iran once again. he's warning that the United States could continue with their strikes because Iran doesn't want to get with the program.

Attacking at the highest level, the highest level of the bridges, which we can knock down. I would say in one day we knocked down every single bridge in Iran. It's not a thing they can do about it. They're electric manufacturing facilities, right? their electric plants where they make their electricity in there. We will, we have to, we'll take them out. I don't want to do that, but if we have to, we'll take them out. They have desalitization plants, we'll take them out.

We have to, I hate to do that. That's probably the one I would like not to do, Lisa. We attacked Carg Island last night, we knocked out a piece. I said, don't touch the oil, because maybe we'll take over Cargallet. We may take over Cargallet. It's not a thing they can do about it. I know there's nothing they can do about it. So let's just do it.

Let's do it, man. You know? How many more threats? I mean, no one could. He's holding the record in regards to the quantity of threats. The United States President has issued a country, okay? He's given them every warning a president could give. He's given every ultimatum, every threat.

Let's just go ahead and get it done. Let's just go ahead and get it done. You know, at this point, might as well. Might as well just go all the way, right? But I think he, again, he's a businessman. He wants to, hey, if we could just sit down and we can have this agreement and we could just, he would love that. Unfortunately, he's dealing with terrorists.

That's not who they are. All right. Here's the next one. This is him talking about the agreement. On Iran, can you clarify, does the end of the ceasefire mean that we are back to a full-scale military conflict? They violate the agreement every day. They lie. They cheat.

They killed people. They've been killing people for 47 years. They knocked out the SS call. We lost, what, 200 people more? It was a long time ago. For 47 years, no president did anything about them. He's right. No one has done anything about it except him.

My thing is, let's go all. all the way, President? Let's just do it. Let's make sure there's nothing left of them. Maybe my position is a bit radical, but it's radical because I just think we're dealing with radical people. We're not dealing with reasonable people, right? Okay. One more for you. Here is the president calling, this is just classic Trump, by the way. I mean, I think at this point, You could tell he's fed up. He's like, come on, these guys. Is the ceasefire done?

Is the MLU dead? It's a very interesting question. To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum. You know what scum is? They're scum. They're sick people.

They're lit by sick people. And they're vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's over. I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate. They're good people. Steve Whitkoff, Jared Gersher, but they have to come back to me.

As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them. They're liars. I agree. It is a waste of time dealing with them. Why are we dealing with them? That's the thing I never understood. Who in the administration truly believed that they could sit down with whatever's left of that terrorist regime, as I call them, every time, and work something out?

Come on, man. They're not going to do that. Make a deal. If I make a deal with him, we have a deal. And he goes out. He talks. We make a deal. Everyone's agreed.

No nuclear weapon. We make a deal. They go outside and talk to the press. They say, we never even talked about it. There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo. Yes. As far as I'm concerned, it's over.

That's what I'm saying. You can't fix stupid. You can't negotiate with terrorists. That's a timeless principle. So I don't know who told the president that he should have got his hopes up regarding this MOU, which was, I understand. Like, I'm not bashing them for coming up with it. I just, again, we're not dealing with reasonable people, right? All right.

Let's go to this reaction on Fox News because they've been covering Iran since the very beginning more than any other network. Here's their point of view. Which we always said. Mark, this is ongoing. You saw the president now ago. those rumors comments up to date, the MOU, he feels like it's done. Your thoughts? Well, first of all, this is inevitable because Donald Trump was never going to accept a bad deal with Iran and Iran was never going to give him a good deal because, as he said, these people

are sick. There are no moderate Iranian radicals, just like there were no moderate Nazis. This regime believes in its bones that their ideology is death to American, death to Israel, and they're not going to stop until they're stopped. And so I think, the president has been incredibly patient with them. He's bent over backwards to give them a peaceful way out. But they repeatedly keep refusing to take his offer, and so they're going to have to pay a price. But I'm reading the MOU, and it says,

Iran will work with Oman in order to define the future administration of the straight. So Iran could look at this and say, look at Rule 5 that you guys signed off on, which we always said, why are you not acknowledging what a bad idea that is? They go, no, we're not going to let them administer a straight. and why did you put it in writing? Well, I think that the deal didn't say anything about them firing at ships going through the Omani waters.

So, you know, look, the reality is the president saw this MOU as a way to get them to the table to launch a... This was an agreement to negotiate an agreement. That's why it's stupid. So we need an agreement to negotiate an agreement. In what world does that make sense? By the way, technically, technically, if we really want to be clear, it was an agreement to negotiate an agreement to negotiate an agreement. Do you guys understand what I'm saying? This is the second agreement technically, right?

So there was an original one that was like, hey, let's agree for a ceasefire. Hopefully we can finally get to another agreement. So we get to the other agreement, which we're on now. and that agreement is about, hey, let's another ceasefire extended for a very long time. Here are, you know, what we can and can't do, hoping that in the end we can get to the final agreement regarding the nuclear program. That's insanity. It's insanity.

And you're having to do this type of high-level negotiation with terrorists. It's interesting.