Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has accused Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of being too consumed with trying to set a world record for push-ups to bother consulting him about the deployment of troops in his state.
As tensions escalate over the growing use of the military in U.S. cities, the Democratic governor has lashed out at the Trump administration for keeping him in the dark about its contentious plan to send thousands of National Guard troops to Chicago to deal with crime and anti-ICE protests.
Pritzker, who Trump suggested on Tuesday should be thrown into jail, even says he cleared his schedule on Saturday waiting to hear from Hegseth about the expected deployment.
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