Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s second budget address to Philadelphia City Council sounded in many ways like an ordinary mayoral speech, with Parker waxing poetic about heroic first responders, touting wins during her first year,

Mayor Cherelle Parker's newest budget for the city of Philadelphia cuts some taxes, expands programs in the School District of Philadelphia and the court system and sets the stage for the U.S.' 250th birthday celebrations happening in 2026.

Philadelphia would cut business tax rates every year and begin spending hundreds of millions of newly allocated dollars on housing and drug treatment programs under a proposed 2026 budget Mayor Cherelle Parker presented Thursday.