Trump Sending More ICE Resources to Chicago

Moderator Ed O’Keefe asked Noem if the plan would also involve National Guard troops, mirroring similar efforts over the past few months in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Noem declined to elaborate, saying, “That always is a prerogative of President [Donald] Trump and his decision. I won’t speak to the specifics of the operations that are planned in other cities.”

Pritzker pushes back

During his own interview on “Face the Nation” Sunday, Pritzker called the deployment of troops on U.S. streets “un-American.” He also maintained that he still hasn’t been contacted by any Trump administration officials regarding their plans.

“It’s clear that in secret, they’re planning this –– well, it’s an invasion –– with U.S. troops, if they in fact do that,” Pritzker said. “They ought to let us know when they’re coming, where they’re coming … And I must say, it’s disruptive, it’s dangerous, it tends to inflame passions on the ground when they don’t let us know what their plans are and when we can’t coordinate with them.”

Tensions between Pritzker and Trump heat up

Pritzker and Trump have been exchanging barbs for the past week. In a lengthy X post on Aug. 23, Pritzker accused Trump of “attempting to manufacture a crisis” and “abusing his power to distract from the pain he’s causing families.” He also said that the deployment of the Guard in Chicago “isn’t about safety –– it’s a test of the limits of [Trump’s] power and a trial run for a police state.”

Then, on Friday, Trump called Chicago a “mess,” adding, “You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out probably next. That’ll be our next one after [D.C.]. And it won’t even be tough.”

Asked on Sunday whether the administration would be intervening in Republican governors’ law enforcement operations, Noem said, “Absolutely.”

She added, “Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer. So we’ve got operations that, again, I won’t talk about details on, but we absolutely are not looking through the viewpoint at anything we’re doing with a political lens.”