Johnson is appearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to defend the city’s law that, in part, restricts police from detaining people solely based on their immigration status.

Mayor Johnson has received input from the likes of former mayors Lori Lightfoot and Rahm Emanuel, and former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

A Chicago alderman says Mayor Brandon Johnson has "no defense" ahead of his congressional testimony on the sanctuary city's immigration policies.

Houston's former mayor, Congressman Sylvester Turner, passed away at 70 years old, Mayor Whitmire announced during a council meeting on Wednesday. Whitmire told the council that Turner was in Washington D.C. last night, attending President Donald Trump's Address to the Congress when was taken to the hospital and died.

Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Congressman Sylvester Turner has died, according to U.S. representatives and a Houston council member.

The cause of death is unclear. Turner took office weeks ago, filling the seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

The announcement came just a day after a Republican congressman introduced legislation threatening to withhold millions in federal funds from the city unless the street mural was removed.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Tuesday the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House will be redesigned as part of a new mural project after threats by Republicans to cut transportation funding if the plaza was not renamed.