Chicago’s new far-left mayor Brandon Johnson is working to implement a $25 million program that would subsidize rent costs for illegal immigrants, a plan that comes as Johnson’s liberal allies press him to cut funding for other priorities such as policing.

Johnson is “eyeing” a plan to provide more than 6,500 illegal immigrants with six months of rental assistance, a program that would cost $25 million, according to the Chicago Tribune. Both city and state taxpayers would be on the hook for the plan, given that Johnson is seeking “state assistance” to fund it. In addition to the rent subsidies, Johnson wants to work with the federal government to expedite work permits for the illegal immigrants so that they can “sustain” themselves after the subsidies expire. “You can characterize our strategy as ultimately resettlement,” Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, told the Tribune.