Governor JB Pritzker has warned President Donald Trump is prepping to send the National Guard into Illinois as part of the MAGA administration’s wider campaign against Democratic strongholds.

“This morning, the Trump administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” Pritzker said on X on Saturday, referring to the Department of Defense following Trump’s decision to return it to its more menacing former title, held between 1789 and 1947.

“It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will,” he added.

While Pritzker did not specify where exactly in Illinois the White House had told him the troops would be deployed, the president has for weeks threatened to federalize the

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