{"id":7621,"date":"2025-08-25T17:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:55:50","slug":"mayor-blasts-trumps-threat-to-deploy-national-guard-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7621","title":{"rendered":"Mayor blasts Trump\u2019s threat to deploy National Guard to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"162\"><strong data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"162\">Chicago Mayor Defies Trump\u2019s National Guard Threat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"472\">Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing back against former President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to deploy the National Guard to the city, calling it \u201cunconstitutional federal overreach.\u201d His office said it\u2019s working with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Cook County to explore legal options to block any such move.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"800\">Trump has suggested sending troops to cities like Chicago and New York to combat crime, despite recent data showing Chicago\u2019s murders, shootings, and car thefts have significantly dropped. Johnson argues military occupation won\u2019t solve urban issues and criticized Trump for slashing federal programs that help reduce violence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"888\">\u201cThe Guard isn\u2019t going to put food on the table or reduce unemployment,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"1055\">Legal experts, including the ACLU of Illinois, say Trump would need state approval or a clear justification under the Insurrection Act\u2014something he likely won\u2019t get.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1057\" data-end=\"1299\">Illinois leaders and local officials say real help would involve hiring more police and investing in communities, not military action. Trump, however, continues to frame cities like Chicago as out of control, despite evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Defies Trump\u2019s National Guard Threat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing back against former President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to deploy the National Guard to the city, calling it \u201cunconstitutional federal overreach.\u201d His office said it\u2019s working with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Cook County to explore legal options to block any such move&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7621\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mayor blasts Trump\u2019s threat to deploy National Guard to Chicago&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}