Trump eyes National Guard expansion into New York, Chicago

President Donald Trump said Friday he’s preparing to expand federal deployments of the National Guard beyond Washington, D.C., with Chicago and New York among the cities under review.

The president has already moved the D.C.’s Police Department under federal control and ordered about 2,000 troops to patrol the nation’s capital. In the Oval Office on Friday, he said his next steps could involve other large, Democratic-led cities he has repeatedly criticized for crime and mismanagement.

“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out. Probably next,” Trump said. “And then we’ll help with New York.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson criticized the idea, warning it would inflame

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