Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are requesting detailed information from the FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department about President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy the military in Chicago.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel, the two Illinois Democrats call the effort a “political game” that is justifying sending troops to American cities, “while wasting limited resources and harming local communities.”

The senators write that the Trump administration isn’t deploying military personnel to states and cities with high violent crime rates that are governed by Republican elected officials, “further underscoring the partisan nature of this endeavor

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