CHICAGO – Gov. JB Pritzker said the Trump administration intends to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard troops sometime on Saturday after the governor refused to do so himself.
Pritzker said the Department of War gave him an ultimatum: “call up your troops, or we will.”
He said in a series of posts on X that he would not call up the National Guard to “further Trump’s act of aggression against our people.”
“It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will,” he wrote.
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