(TNS) As tensions rise between Illinois politicians and President Donald Trump over his plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, the latter contrasted Democratic governors’ resistance to their desire for federal assistance on an issue that has plagued the Great Lakes for decades: invasive carp.

“There’s a way of getting rid of those, very expensive,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday, “and I didn’t get a request from the governor of Illinois, (which) is affected maybe more than anybody else, right? And I think until I get that request from that guy, I’m not going to do anything about it.”

The president was likely referring to a $1.15 billion infrastructure project at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Joliet, to build the last, multipronged li

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