Gov. Pritzker Blasts White House Plan to Deploy Feds in Chicago: ‘A Continuing Slip’ in Trump’s ‘Mental Faculties’

Sarah Rumpf Aug 25th, 2025, 8:13 pm

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker defiantly challenged President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, holding a press conference with local officials in which he declared the plan was unnecessary and unwelcome — and took a swipe at the president’s “mental faculties.”

The Trump administration has controversially deployed federal agents in Washington, D.C., two months after doing so in Los Angeles, claiming it was necessary to fight crime. Chicago is one of the main cities Trump has said he intends to target soon, and Pritzker blasted the plan as “exactly the type of overreach that our country’s Founders warne

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