25/08/2025 10:04
The Guardian
Illinois attorney general says president’s actions are ‘un-American’ and there is no emergency as Pentagon official confirms plans to send troops to cityIllinois senator Tammy Duckworth has said in a statement that Trump’s national guard plan for Chicago “distracts the military from executing its core mission of keeping Americans safe from real adversaries”.In a statement, she said:We know this isn’t about ‘law and order’ because Trump is once again refusing to coordinate with state and local officials. And if he really cared about ‘health and safety,’ he wouldn’t have cut millions of dollars in gun violence prevention funding just weeks ago.This is just another attempt to distract the American people from the price increases his own policies are causing and the various personal scandals he wants to change the subject from.President Trump’s illegal attempt to militarize Chicago will do nothing but spark chaos and create spectacle.There is no emergency in Illinois that warrants federalizing our national guard or deploying active-duty troops into our communities – just as there was no justification in Washington or Los Angeles. Donald Trump’s flagrant abuses of power must end. Continue reading...
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