J.B. Pritzker

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

This morning, the Trump Administration's Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will.

At a time when federal agents are sowing chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration is holding bipartisan funding hostage.

It’s been nearly 45 days since Secretary Noem has held an official press conference, so it’s time she faces the public and takes questions from the press to be held accountable for the Trump Administration’s gross misconduct.

My message of alarm is that the constitutional crisis is not on its way; it is here, and we all better start acting like it.

Our house is on fire, and our firefighters are using their hoses to water the lawn outside.

This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

This is a part of his plan to do something really nefarious, which is to interfere with elections in 2026.

Political violence unfortunately has been ratcheting up in this country.

There are people who are fomenting it [political violence] in this country. I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it.

Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?

When did we become a country where it’s OK for a U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something you don’t want.

There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole — and anyone who takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans, too.

The president’s absurd characterizations do not match what is happening on the ground here. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

The state of Illinois is ready to stand against this military deployment with every peaceful tool we have.

Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they’re targeting violent criminals.

I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal. ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it’s being done in the fake guise of fighting crime.

This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.

One violent crime is too many, and we have more work to do.

There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops.

No, I will not call the president asking him to send troops to Chicago.

I will not stand idly by

Donald Trump is trying to take that money away. And he isn't listening to the business community here.

We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American.

It's anti-American. It's un-American. And I would tell her to maybe check herself for, what does she really believe?