Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is hoping opponents of her White Stadium plan will turn around and walk away, but she is refusing to listen to the same lawmakers who have repeatedly rejected her controversial tax-shifting bill.

Mr. Wu said twice this week that he would stand by his bill to override the state’s property tax law despite continued opposition.

In a radio appearance Tuesday, the mayor defended his proposal to further shift the city’s tax burden from the residential sector to the commercial sector, and elaborated on the criticism he leveled at the state Senate a day earlier for formally killing the bill for the second time last week.

At a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast Monday, Wu announced for the first time that he has no intention of backing away from his push to raise commercial tax rates, despite his proposal losing 33-5 in the state Senate.

“We cannot accept that states and communities can find the money to host a World Cup and seniors aren’t excited about not being able to stay in their homes,” Wu said at the event.

On Tuesday, she expanded on her remarks on GBH’s Boston Public Radio, likening the differing approach with the state Legislature to “a split-screen moment in so many ways in our daily lives.”

“We are in a system where the state chooses and is often influenced by the chamber of commerce over the conscience of the community,” Wu said.

The mayor said he was “very excited to host the World Cup,” and while he sees it as an important economic opportunity and a way to promote the city, he urged Congress to keep looking beyond the screen and act on the housing affordability policies that Boston and other cities are proposing.

Wu said his bill would reduce the expected 13% tax increase that Boston homeowners face this year. He said his bill has support across the city, with votes in favor from four of six Boston senators, all 16 of the city’s state representatives and 12 of 13 city council members.

But last week’s vote in the Senate appeared decisive.

State Sen. William Brownsberger, a Belmont Democrat who represents part of Boston, said after the bill was passed last week that he is “hopeful that we can move past this and work with our local government partners toward all of our truly shared goals.”

The mayor’s refusal to back down from the failed bill created another split screen.

In October, Wu’s office urged opponents of the city’s $200 million public-private plan to renovate White Stadium for a women’s professional soccer team to abandon their appeal efforts, citing an earlier court ruling in a lawsuit seeking to block the project over allegations of illegal privatization.

“The Emerald Necklace Conservancy has spent millions of dollars trying to block ongoing renovations to Boston Public Schools athletic facilities,” a city spokesperson said in a statement at the time. “Their baseless claims have been repeatedly rejected by the courts and this appeal should be abandoned.”

Opponents of the city and Boston Unity Soccer Partners’ White Stadium project criticize the inflated price tag, which has funneled at least $91 million of half of the city’s project to taxpayers, and support a scaled-down rehabilitation of just the high school, which they say could be built for just $64.6 million.

Wu said the city’s $91 million figure for December 2024 is likely to be higher because federal tariffs are driving up the cost of construction materials, but he has repeatedly put off plans to provide a final cost estimate.

On Tuesday, the mayor said the final construction bids are being evaluated by the city, which plans to share updated cost estimates by the end of this month.

State Sen. Nick Collins, a South Boston Democrat, read through the mayor’s strategy to dismiss stadium opponents’ claims as “worthless,” calling Wu’s framing of last week’s Senate action “patently false.”

“Last week, the mayor said the Senate rejected property tax relief for seniors, which is patently false,” Collins said in a statement to the Herald. “While the amendment that would have increased taxes on small businesses was overwhelmingly rejected, the Senate voted 37-1 to pass property tax relief for seniors, homeowners, and small businesses. This is undeniable.

“In particular, the senior property tax exemption language passed by the Senate last week is based on a national regulation petition authored by Congressman Brian Worrell in collaboration with the Mass Senior Action Council,” Collins said. “It was passed unanimously by the city council and signed by the mayor.”

“Before the Senate voted to approve these tax breaks, the mayor supported them. Together, they account for two-thirds of the home rule petitions,” Collins added.

Mr. Worrell, whose candidacy for city council president was overturned by Mr. Wu’s supporters in a shocking last-minute turn earlier this month, appeared to be quietly critical of the mayor while expressing support for Mr. Collins’ amendment.

“While I don’t necessarily agree with all of the tax solutions for Boston homeowners, I want to thank Nick Collins for putting people over politics and introducing this amendment.” Mr Worrell told X The day after last week’s Senate vote.

“This is much-needed relief for seniors and will help keep more people on fixed incomes in their communities, which is why the City Council unanimously passed this bill last year as a standalone measure and included it in other bills,” Worrell added in a statement Tuesday from Collins’ office.