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Cavalier Johnson: “The federal government has simply failed us on immigration…”

Featuring: Cavalier Johnson, Democratic | Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson

Published August 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 14:59

What are they trying to accomplish here other than scaring people? Those are things I'm thinking about. The record of shooting deaths by ICE agents is alarming in Minnesota and in Maine and Texas. Overall, The federal government has simply failed us on immigration policy. And I'm old enough to remember when this election was getting started, this past presidential election, and when Joe Biden was president of the United States, and he worked very … (14:59–15:04)

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Cavalier Johnson

“If shared revenue had simply kept pace with inflation over the course of the last three decades, Milwaukee would receive about 250 million…”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 20:00-20:24
“Roughly half of the Milwaukee Police Department would have been gone [without the sales tax].”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 21:43-21:48
“Roughly a quarter of the Milwaukee Fire Department would have vanished [without the sales tax].”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 22:06-22:11
“Milwaukee opens 176 different polling locations on election day with literally hundreds and hundreds of voting wards in those locations.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 05:07-05:19
“The people who run our elections... are honest. They've got no agenda other than a commitment to civic integrity.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 05:25-05:40
“It highly offends me when there are those folks who falsely impugn their work.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 05:47-05:53
“Our vote count in Milwaukee, it's accurate and we've got a number of precautions that are in place.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 07:24-07:31
“We in the city of Milwaukee, like every other place all around the state, we follow the law.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 07:34-07:39
“The system is designed to catch those mistakes. And the ultimate backstop are recount elections which we have engaged in over the years.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 07:53-08:04
“I said that the investigation that the FBI was engaging in here was an attempt to undermine faith in American democracy.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 08:26-08:36
“There seemed to be no justification for the investigation and the evidence of wrongdoing is entirely absent.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 08:41-08:48
“The Trump administration's application of immigration law has been entirely, entirely inappropriate.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 12:45-12:55
“Masked ICE agents, in unmarked vehicles, smashing car windows. This sort of stuff. It is simply just unacceptable in a civil society.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 12:58-13:08
“Law enforcement must be conducted with respect and conducted with the least amount of force necessary in honoring the dignity of those that…”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 13:53-14:04
“Joe Biden worked very closely with one of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, Senator Lankford out of Oklahoma, on a…”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 15:04-15:32
“State law says we must increase the number of police and fire firefighters.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 19:06-19:10
“The 2027 city budget will again exceed $2 billion.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 19:17-19:23
“Last year, I had a budget hole that we had to climb out of about $100 million to balance the budget.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 20:28-20:35
“The budget gap is not as big, but it is similar in size. It is still pretty big. It's about 96, $97 million that we got to climb out of.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 20:40-20:51
“We can now collect a sales tax in the City of Milwaukee.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 21:07-21:12
“We have to use that money for specific purposes that are strictly outlined in state law.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 21:16-21:22
“Without the sales tax, Milwaukee would have become insolvent.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 21:43-21:48
“We have to balance our budgets, and we'll do that responsibly without pushing costs into future years.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 23:25-23:33
“I'm hopeful that we can modify state law in the years ahead to add flexibility to the revenue that we receive in the city of Milwaukee.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 25:32-25:41
“The state has not granted, in a clean way, the ability of the city of Milwaukee to process ballots at least the day before Election Day.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 27:10-27:19
“Roughly 10% of the state's population lives right here in the city [of Milwaukee].”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 27:52-27:58
“The Act 12 law requires us to grow the number of police officers in the city of Milwaukee.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 29:17-29:24
“I will continue to put budgets forward that fully fund classes out of our police academy the most that we possibly can do.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 31:26-31:35
“This year, 2026 is the year of housing.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 33:43-33:47
“We used a lot of federal dollars from President Joe Biden's administration, American Rescue Plan act dollars.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 34:39-34:46
“We invested a significant amount of those dollars into housing to take city-owned tax foreclosed properties.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 34:45-34:59
“The city of Milwaukee has a workforce housing policy that we're enacting to help especially those young professionals.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 35:58-36:07
“We're implementing a new tool with some of our partners like the Community Development alliance, the Habitat for Humanity, others to create…”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 36:17-36:28
“We've supported down payment assistance for folks in the city of Milwaukee who will become homeowners in the city.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 36:41-36:48
“When I became mayor, we had our first zoning update.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 37:01-37:06
“We have a police department in the city of Milwaukee that does a lot of really incredible work to keep our community safe.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 38:38-38:46
“The police department is a data driven agency.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 39:18-39:21
“The city was on the verge of financial collapse.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 43:38-43:41
“Camp Rise represents greater public safety for us all.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 46:59-47:02
“We took 2,000 kids not just from Camp Rise, but from other programs around the city to a ball game at American Family Field.”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 48:03-48:13
“We started with 200 boys, the biggest complaint that we got was that girls weren't allowed. So now we've expanded it. Now we've got a couple…”
Tuesday Luncheon - Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson | Uploaded August 13, 2026 | 49:06-49:15