It only took the Seattle City Council four weeks to double-back on their vote to tax big businesses in order to pay for affordable housing and homelessness services.

In a statement released this afternoon, Mayor Jenny Durkan and the majority of the City Council—including three of the original head tax sponsors, Councilmember Mike O’Brien, Councilmember Lisa Herbold, and Councilmember Lorena González—announced they would convene this week to discuss repealing the controversial legislation.

Read More: Immigrant moms in SeaTac prison 'could hear their children screaming' “It is clear that the ordinance will lead to a prolonged, expensive political fight over the next five months that will do nothing to tackle our urgent housing and homelessness crisis,” the statement read.The repeal is up for a vote on Tuesday.Councilmember Mike O’Brien, one of the original sponsors of the head tax legislation, has faced some of the harshest backlash in community town halls for his support of the measure. Today, O’Brien said the business community applied much of the pressure that resulted in this decision.“There's no doubt that business pressure has shifted my view,” he said. “Business put pressure on the public, and the public put pressure on us.”

Read More: We photographed Ericka when she was a sex worker. This is her life now O'Brien said he also worried the head tax could become an issue in Democrats' reelection campaigns across the state — though he still thought a head tax was the best solution he had seen to fund subsidized housing. “It looked like Republicans would make the Seattle employee hours tax a campaign challenge in swing districts around the state,” O’Brien said.“That could result in a couple of things: It could result in Republican controlling and overriding us, or it could result in Democrats agreeing that they don’t want Seattle having the employee hours tax and taking it away from us.”In early May, Democrat state Senator Mark Mullet (D-Issaquah) demanded that the Seattle City Council drop the head tax. Other Democrats joined him, including Senator Guy Palumbo (D-Maltby), who said that there would likely be bipartisan support for a proposed bill from Senator Mark Schoesler (R-Ritzville) to ban employee head tax measures across the state.Councilmember Lisa Herbold, another original sponsor of the head tax legislation, said that the Chamber of Commerce successfully convinced the public of a “misleading narrative.”She continued: