# Call on City Treasurer to cease blanket boycott of Treasury obligations and resume investment in U.S. Treasury backed securities

- Record number: **Or2025-0021075**
- Type: Order; category: City Council
- Status: In Committee
- Sponsor: [Raymond A. Lopez](https://www.chicagopolitics.org/ward/15) (15th Ward)
- Committee: [Committee on Finance](https://www.chicagopolitics.org/committee/finance)
- Submitted Date: Nov 14, 2025
- Introduction Date: Nov 14, 2025
- Official record: [Office of the City Clerk](https://chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Matter/?matterId=72E30D70-A5C1-F011-BBD2-001DD80C6CBA)

## Impact report

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This committee report recommends sending a proposal, which asks the City Treasurer to stop a blanket boycott of U.S. Treasury investments and start investing in them again, to the Committee on Finance for review.

**Who it affects**

- **City Treasurer's office**: The proposal under review asks the Treasurer to stop refusing all U.S. Treasury investments and to start buying U.S. Treasury-backed securities again.
- **City Council Committee on Finance**: The Committee on Finance would receive the proposal and review it.

**What changes**

- The proposal would be moved to the Committee on Finance for review.
- If later adopted, the proposal would ask the City Treasurer to end the blanket boycott of U.S. Treasury obligations.
- If later adopted, the proposal would ask the City Treasurer to resume investing city money in U.S. Treasury-backed securities.

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