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What's Behind Trump and the White House Waffling on National Guard in Chicago?
Congressman Krishnamoorthi's bill aims to prevent Trump from deploying National Guard to Chicago amid significant local opposition and data showing a decline in violent crime.
- President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago following a violent Labor Day weekend in 2024.
- The deployment proposal arose amid ongoing concerns over Chicago violence and Republican states’ gun laws fueling illegal firearm flow into the city.
- State officials, including Illinois’ governor and Chicago’s mayor, criticized the introduction of federalized troops as a politically motivated overreach by Trump, while expressing openness to receiving federal support aimed at reducing crime.
- Estimates place the cost of sending up to 3,000 National Guard members at nearly $1.6 million daily, with some residents and experts noting crime has declined in many neighborhoods despite the proposal.
- The timing of any National Guard deployment remains uncertain, with most Chicago residents and polls opposing military presence and preferring focused crime prevention efforts.
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Sending National Guard to Chicago could cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 million a day, analysis says
Deploying National Guard troops to Chicago could cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 million per day, according to a nonpartisan federal budget research organization.The estimate is based on 3,000 troops potentially being sent to Chicago, though no official number has been made public.The National Priorities Project, a research group that's part of the progressive nonprofit Institute for Policy Studies, used a figure of $530 per Guard member per day, whi…
'My position changed over the past week': The Chicagoans who want Trump to send in the National Guard
CHICAGO, Ill. — The timing of when President Donald Trump will deploy the National Guard into the city was top of mind at the event hosted by Chicago Flips Red at Trump Tower. The Trump-supporting group has been part of the vocal locals who want the president to help Chicago reduce the crime rate.It is still unknown when troops will be sent in. There are reports about preparations being made to house federal immigration agents at Naval Station G…
How Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans are reacting to Trump's National Guard threats
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Residents In Historically Crime-Ridden Chicago Neighborhood Oppose Trump's National Guard Threats
Source: Art Wager / Getty Despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that residents, especially Black residents, in Democrat-run cities are in favor of his deployment of National Guard troops to fight allegedly out-of-control crime in their neighborhoods, polls consistently show that most American voters — including most residents of Washington, D.C., and Chicago — oppose his weaponization of military personnel in American cities. In fact, acco…
What's behind Trump and the White House waffling on National Guard in Chicago?
President Donald Trump has been threatening to send the National Guard to Chicago to combat crime since shortly after he dispatched troops to Washington, D.C. in mid-August. "We're going in. I didn't say when. We're going in," the president declared as recently as September 2. But one day later Trump and his team appeared to change their tune just a bit. Related: Trump seemingly walks back decision on sending troops to Chicago "I want …
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