Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) announced that President Donald Trump was preparing to federalize roughly 300 Illinois National Guardsmen to Chicago.
Pritzker revealed in a series of posts on X,that the Department of War had given him an “ultimatum” to send troops to Chicago, or the Trump administration would.
“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” Pritzker said. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”
“In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard,” Pritzker added in another post.
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Pritzker continued to claim that the federalizing of the Illinois National Guard
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