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Illinois’ Democratic leaders promised a vigorous defense — and potential court action — against any moves by President-elect Donald Trump to try to erode personal liberties or withhold federal funds for the state during his coming four-year tenure.
But as Trump campaigned on plans for mass deportation of immigrants, a rolling back of transgender rights and climate change controls, a likely GOP Congress considering a federal abortion ban and elimination of the Affordable Care Act, Illinois Democrats acknowledged they could not predict what the unpredictable former president will do once he’s in office.
“Chaos, retribution and disarray radiated from the White House the last time Donald Trump occupied it,” said Gov. JB Pritzker, a vehement critic of Trump both while he was in office and out of it the past four years. “Perhaps this time may be different.”
But Pritzker vowed in the wake of Tuesday’s election results that he’d fight any federal efforts that conflict with Illinois’ policies or rights of its residents.
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