President Donald Trump took a swipe at Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) as he touted the success of his crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. — and discussed the possibility of sending National Guard troops to other cities in the hopes of seeing similar results.
Trump began by saying that it was not his intent to have the National Guard &#8220;barge in on&#8221; cities — and that it would be better if mayors or governors who clearly needed help would ask for it — but that the results in the nation&#8217;s capital spoke for themselves.
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&#8220;You really want to be asked to go, you know,&#8221; he began. &#8220;I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians, like a guy like Pritzker. He ought to spend more time at the gym, actually.&#8221;
&#8220;That guy is a disaster,&#8221; he continued, swinging at Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and legacy media as well. &#8220;Gavin Newsom&#8217;s a disaster. When we went — we saved Los Angeles, you wouldn&#8217;t have been able to have the Olympics in Los Angeles, you&#8217;re barely able to have it now. They did lose 25,000 houses to a fire that should have never occurred because they didn&#8217;t let the water come down from the Pacific Northwest, which you guys don&#8217;t want to write about.&#8221;
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Trump pivoted back to the crime issue, adding, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like going to a town, a city, a place — a state, and then be criticized by some corrupt or incompetent governor where crime is rampant. Like take a look at D.C. — crime was rampant, it was at the all-time worst. It got really bad during the Biden four years, and then I have a mayor stand up and say how crime has reached a 30-year low.&#8221;
After a pause and a glare at the gathered member of the press, Trump repeated, &#8220;Thirty-year low? People are being killed left and right. It&#8217;s not a 30-year low.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday that Chicago is next on his list of places where he wants to use his power to root out violent crime.
Speaking to reporters and praising federal agents for the violent crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., Trump set his sights on Chicago, where gang violence and shootings have become the norm under Democratic leadership.
&#8220;Chicago is a mess, you have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we will straighten that one out next. That will be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/i-think-chicago-will-be-next-president-trump-signals-plans-to-extend-crackdown-on-crime-to-chicago/">said</a>.
Trump also hinted at moving federal resources to New York City after taking care of Chicago.
&#8220;And the people in Chicago &#8230; are screaming for us to come. They are wearing red hats, just like this one,&#8221; Trump said, referring to his &#8220;Trump Was Right About Everything&#8221; hat. “African American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, ‘Please, Mr. Trump, come to Chicago, please.’ I did great with the black vote, as you know, and they want something to happen. So, I think Chicago will be next and then we’ll help with New York.”
While Chicago has reported a decrease in homicides and other violent crimes in recent years, the Windy City is still <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/03/11/homicides-drop-nationwide-chicago-lags-behind-other-major-cities-why">lagging behind</a> some other major cities in tackling its murder problem. In 2023, Chicago reported 617 homicides, which was a decrease from the 715 murders in 2022, but still higher than America&#8217;s two largest cities, New York City and Los Angeles.
Earlier this month, 34 people were shot, five of whom were killed, in shootings across Chicago during one weekend, ABC 7 Chicago <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-10-shot-2-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/17483197/">reported</a>. The violence has continued this week, with three people killed and another person wounded in multiple shootings in the city on Thursday, according to <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-crime-garfield-park-shootings">Fox 32</a>.
Chicago&#8217;s elected Democratic politicians criticized Trump over his comments on sending troops to the city, with Mayor Brandon Johnson calling Trump&#8217;s approach &#8220;uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound,&#8221; according to <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/i-think-chicago-will-be-next-president-trump-signals-plans-to-extend-crackdown-on-crime-to-chicago/">WGN 9</a>.
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&#8220;Unlawfully deploying the National Guard to Chicago has the potential to inflame tensions between residents and law enforcement when we know that trust between police and residents is foundational to building safer communities,&#8221; Johnson added. &#8220;An unlawful deployment would be unsustainable and would threaten to undermine the historic progress we have. In the past year alone, we have reduced homicides by more than 30%, robberies by 35%, and shootings by almost 40%. We need to continue to invest in what is working.&#8221;
Federal and local law enforcement have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/feds-nab-suspected-ms-13-gangster-top-700-arrests-dc-crackdown">arrested</a> over 700 suspected criminals on the capital&#8217;s streets since Trump sent in federal agents and the National Guard, with most of the arrests taking place in D.C.&#8217;s highest crime areas, according to the White House. D.C. police also reported a murder-free eight days stretching back to last Thursday, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-has-murder-free-week-ag-bondi-touts-77-more-arrests-federal-takeover">Fox News</a>.
In Washington, D.C., Trump has the authority to deploy National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officers through the &#8220;Home Rule Act.&#8221; Deploying the National Guard to another American city wouldn&#8217;t be as simple and would likely require Trump to sidestep Democratic Governor JB Pritzker, similar to what the president did when he sent troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer. That move was challenged in court and is currently before a federal judge.

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Texas Democrats who fled the state to block a vote on a new congressional map evacuated their hotel in Illinois due to a bomb threat Wednesday morning.
Police arrived at the hotel in St. Charles, Illinois — which is just west of Chicago — around 7:15 a.m. and &#8220;conducted a thorough search.&#8221; No explosive devices were found, and the hotel guests were given the all-clear to return to their rooms, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/texas-democrats-bomb-threat-evacuated-illinois-hotel-quorum-break/">reported</a>.
&#8220;In response to the threat, 400 people were immediately evacuated and the area was secured as bomb squad units conducted their investigation,&#8221; the St. Charles Police Department said. &#8220;Following clearance from authorities, all guests and staff have safely returned to the premises.&#8221;
Democratic Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson pinned blame on &#8220;reckless rhetoric&#8221; from Republicans, saying, &#8220;When the Attorney General tells people to &#8216;hunt us down,&#8217; it&#8217;s not just politics — it&#8217;s a threat to our safety,&#8221; Fox 26 Houston <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/bomb-threat-illinois-texas-democrats-lawmakers">reported</a>.
Texas Republicans, led by Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, have threatened to arrest the group of Democrats or remove them from office if they don&#8217;t return to vote on the GOP&#8217;s redistricting plan. If approved, the new congressional map could flip five Democratic seats to likely Republican pickups in the 2026 midterm elections.
President Donald Trump is a major proponent of the redistricting plan, saying Republicans are &#8220;entitled&#8221; to five more seats and suggesting on Tuesday that the FBI &#8220;may have to&#8221; get involved and bring the Democrats back to Texas. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5437547-trump-fbi-texas-democrats/">asking</a> the bureau to take &#8220;any appropriate steps&#8221; to help law enforcement arrest the runaway Democrats.
On Tuesday, Paxton said that he would &#8220;seek judicial orders declaring that runaway Democrats who fail to appear by the Speaker&#8217;s deadline have vacated their office.&#8221; The deadline for the AWOL Democrats to return to the state legislature is Friday.
State Rep. Johnson argued that Texas Republicans &#8220;continuing to go further and further down the path of incitement and intimidation is dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;And this is the perfect example. We won&#8217;t be intimidated,&#8221; Johnson added. &#8220;Texas Democrats are united, resolute, and more committed than ever to standing up for the people we represent. This moment demands courage — and we&#8217;re ready to meet it.&#8221;
Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker, who welcomed Texas Democrats to his state earlier this week, <a href="https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1953106643819897052">wrote</a> on X Wednesday morning, &#8220;I am aware of reports that threats were made against Texas elected officials in our state. Threats of violence will be investigated and those responsible will be held accountable. I have instructed [Illinois State Police] to ensure we maintain public safety.&#8221;
Pritzker has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mr-hypocrisy-pritzker-bashes-texas-maps-forgets-his-own-power-grabs-in-illinois?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Mr.+Hypocrisy%3A+Pritzker+Bashes+Texas+Maps%2C+Forgets+His+Own+Power+Grabs+In+Illinois">slammed</a> for jumping into the Texas redistricting fight and criticizing Republicans after he oversaw a redistricting in Illinois in 2021 that included some of the most significant gerrymandering in the country.

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The Supreme Court upholds Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical procedures for minors. The 6–3 decision is a landmark victory for parents and conservatives, and a defining blow to transgender activism. The United States continues to fortify the Middle East as Trump ramps up the pressure on Iran to surrender. And, as Trump escalates deportation plans, Democrats make headlines by getting themselves arrested.
It’s Thursday, June 19, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>SCOTUS Upholds Gender-Mutilation Ban</h2>
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Topline: In a major win for conservative activists and parent groups, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender drugs and surgeries for children.
In the case of United States v. Skrmetti — the justices decided that Tennessee’s law does not violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The plaintiffs in the case — which included trans-identifying teens and their families — claimed that Tennessee’s law banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors discriminated against them on the basis of sex. More than 20 states have bans similar to Tennessee’s.
Chief Justice John Roberts penned the court’s <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf">opinion</a> and rejected the plaintiffs’ argument. He also said the plaintiffs “contort the meaning of the term ‘medical treatment,&#8217;” writing, “Notably absent from their framing is a key aspect of any medical treatment: the underlying medical concern the treatment is intended to address.”
“The main argument from the other side when we did the oral argument in front of the court was if you have a boy who wants testosterone to resolve a developmental defect, then they can get it,”  Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti told The Daily Wire. “But a girl who wants testosterone to deepen her voice can&#8217;t. The dissenting justices thought that this was some sort of discrimination. But with any medical treatment, you&#8217;re not just handing someone a drug, you&#8217;re giving them a treatment to treat a specific condition. And different drugs have different effects on different conditions. And we differentiate between those purposes all the time. So I thought that was a fatal flaw in the argument on the other side.”
Roberts noted that the number of minors requesting “sex transition treatments” has increased in recent years, and meanwhile, European countries have cracked down on these procedures and drugs. Medical skepticism around these drugs and procedures is only growing – last month, the <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/gender-dysphoria-report-release.html">HHS</a> released a review saying the “science and evidence do not support” the use of these drugs and procedures for children.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in which he said, “there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children,” and “recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.”
Meanwhile, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent joined by the two other liberal-leaning justices, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sotomayor claimed that teens needing transgender drugs “can be a question of life or death.” Advocates of these drugs and surgeries have <a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-and-youth-suicide">pushed</a> a similar line to parents of trans-identifying children for years, even as newer evidence has shown that these treatments do not improve children’s mental health.
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<h2>Iran Says It Will &#8216;Never Surrender&#8217; While Trump Teases Possible Strikes</h2>
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Topline:  As the war between Israel and Iran approaches its seventh day, the Ayatollah says his country will never surrender.
On Wednesday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei let the world know he would never agree to President Donald Trump’s demand for an unconditional surrender. In a video statement, Iran’s theocratic leader said, “Those with wisdom who know Iran, its people and its history, never speak to this nation in the language of threats, because the Iranian nation will not surrender…The United States must know that our people will not surrender, and any military intervention by them will lead to irreparable consequences.” 
That video came a day after President Trump threatened to strike the Ayatollah, and as Israel continues to hammer Iranian nuclear and military facilities. To date, the Israelis have killed 11 of Iran’s 12 highest-ranking military leaders.
The expectation from military experts is that if Trump joins Israel’s offensive, the Iranians would respond by launching missiles at American military installations across the Middle East, particularly those in Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait, which are just across the border. 
“I may do it, I may not do it,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1935338837695189018">said</a> at the White House on Wednesday. “Nobody knows what I’m gonna do. I can tell you this, that Iran’s got a lot of trouble. And they wanna negotiate. And I said, &#8216;Why didn’t you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction?'&#8221;
The president also made it clear that whatever course he takes, he intends to avoid a protracted war and is solely focused on preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. In the latest <a href="https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/57_favor_u_s_military_action_against_iran_s_nukes">Rasmussen polling</a>, 57% of Americans support American strikes to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, compared to just 30% who oppose them. But 69% of Americans say that even if they support airstrikes against Iran, they prefer the two sides negotiate an agreement.
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<h2>Immigration Pushback Continues As Trump Admin Sticks To Its Guns</h2>
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Topline:  Blue cities are in rebellion against Trump’s immigration agenda. Protests and riots threaten immigration officers, while Democratic officials openly challenge the federal government.
Most of the pushback against immigration enforcement is in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. The resistance involves everything from activist coordination to impeding ICE operations and local officials getting in between ICE and local law enforcement. 
Chicago has suspended an online portal for illegal aliens to apply for IDs. The CityKeys program was shut down after ICE subpoenaed its records. The Chicago city clerk then shut it down and told the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/14/ice-subpoena-chicago-city-clerk-online-municipal-id/">Chicago Tribune,</a> “We’re going to fight giving over any data to the federal government.” Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson has been adamant that Chicago would “take to the streets” if it had to resist Trump. 
Comments like that haven’t stopped Trump from targeting these cities.
“Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1934638998640537748">said</a> earlier this week. “Vast numbers of those people were murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails. They emptied their jails out into the US. Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities, and they think they&#8217;re going to use them to vote. It&#8217;s not going to happen.” 
Local law enforcement is also cracking down on anti-ICE riots  – a bevy of new charges were announced Tuesday from state and federal officials. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli and Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman outlined dozens of counts from curfew violations to assault of law enforcement. Hochman said that his district attorney’s office has charged at least 30 people. The U.S. attorney has brought an additional 20 counts. 
Lawmakers on both sides have condemned violence, but Democrats also seem to court their own run-ins with law enforcement. Earlier this month, New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver was charged after chaos erupted at an ICE detention center in Newark. More recently, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is a candidate for mayor, was arrested outside an immigration court on Tuesday. Police say he was impeding law enforcement. Then last week, Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) had to be forcefully removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles.

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An AI-generated list of recommended reading for the summer, published by the Chicago Sun-Times, included several books that don’t exist.
Per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai">NPR</a>, at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer used the same flawed list, titled “Summer reading list for 2025.&#8221; Suggested titles included “Tidewater Dreams,” purportedly authored by Chilean American novelist Isabel Allende, which was described as her &#8220;first climate fiction novel.&#8221; Allende is a real person, but the suggested novel is not a book she or anyone else published.
Another suggestion was “The Rainmakers,” which is described as a story set in a &#8220;near-future American West where artificially induced rain has become a luxury commodity.” This faux novel was said to be written by 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner Percival Everett.
The outlet noted that only five of the 15 books suggested were real titles. 
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&#8220;We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak,&#8221; Victor Lim, marketing director for the Chicago Sun-Times&#8217; parent company, Chicago Public Media, said in a statement. He also noted that the content did not come directly from the newspaper’s staffers. 
&#8220;This is licensed content that was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom, but it is unacceptable for any content we provide to our readers to be inaccurate. We value our readers&#8217; trust in our reporting and take this very seriously. More info will be provided soon as we investigate.&#8221;
The article&#8217;s author, Marco Buscaglia, addressed the error, writing in an email to NPR, &#8220;Huge mistake on my part and has nothing to do with the Sun-Times. They trust that the content they purchase is accurate and I betrayed that trust. It&#8217;s on me 100 percent.&#8221;
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The paper also <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2025/05/20/chicago-sun-times-response-to-may-18-special-section">issued a response</a> to subscribers, noting that the person responsible for the error had been terminated and promising the mistake would not happen again. They said subscribers would not be charged for the premium edition and said more care would be put into checking for AI-generated content in the future.
“We are in a moment of great transformation in journalism and technology, and at the same time our industry continues to be besieged by business challenges. This should be a learning moment for all journalism organizations: Our work is valued — and valuable — because of the humanity behind it,” the statement said.
“At Chicago Public Media, we are proud of our credible, independent journalism, created for and by people. And part of the journalistic process is a commitment to acknowledging mistakes. It is unacceptable that this content was inaccurate, and it is equally unacceptable that we did not make it clear to readers that the section was produced outside the Sun-Times newsroom.”

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The Trump administration is investigating the City of Chicago after Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson bragged about the number of black people he has hired.
The Justice Department informed Johnson on Monday of the probe just one day after he appeared at a church and suggested that he had staffed his administration based on race. In a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1400811/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a>, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told Johnson that the investigation would examine whether the city violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in employment.
Dhillon told Johnson the investigation was “based on information suggesting that you have made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race.”
On Sunday, Johnson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcD_HXIFQW4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn and talked about the racial makeup of his administration. He also emphasized hiring “our people.” 
“When we say ‘our people hire our people,’ I just want to name this,” he said, pointing out how the percentage of white people in the mayor&#8217;s office had dramatically decreased during his administration making it &#8220;the most diverse administration in the history of Chicago.”
Johnson&#8217;s office later <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/">released</a> demographics of staffers in the mayor&#8217;s office, indicating 34.3% are black, 30.5% are white, 23.8% are Hispanic, and 6.7% are Asian. 
He then went on to suggest that black people should be in charge because they would govern for the greater good.  
“There are some detractors that will push back on me and say, ‘The only thing that mayor, the mayor, talks about is the hiring of black people.&#8217; No, what I’m saying is, when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else,” he said. “We are the most generous people on the planet. I don’t know too many cultures that have play cousins. That’s how generous we are. We just make somebody a family member, right. That’s just how we are.” 
He then went on to list senior positions in his administration staffed by black people. 
&#8220;Business and economic neighborhood development, the deputy mayor is a black woman. The Department of Planning and Development is a black woman. Infrastructure deputy mayor is a black woman. Chief operations officer is a black man. Budget director is a black woman. Senior advisor is a black man. And I&#8217;m laying that out because when you ask, how do we ensure that our people get a chance to grow their business? Having people in my administration that will look out for the interest of everyone — and everyone means you have to look out for the interest of black folks, because that hasn&#8217;t happened.&#8221;
Dhillon said that these comments prompted the question of whether similar racially based hiring decisions were being made systematically throughout the city’s government. 
“Considering these remarks, I have authorized an investigation to determine whether the City of Chicago is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination as set forth above,” Dhillon said. “If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions.”
Johnson responded to the investigation by saying he was proud to lead the most “diverse administration in the history of our city.”

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Former President Joe Biden is set to deliver his first public speech since leaving the White House on Tuesday, focusing on Social Security, a topic Democrats have zeroed in on as the Trump administration takes a sledgehammer to federal agencies and programs.
Biden will address attendees of the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) conference in Chicago, where he will join other political figures, such as former Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), former Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), and former Maryland Democratic Governor and Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O&#8217;Malley, NBC 5 Chicago <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/biden-to-give-first-speech-since-leaving-office-with-chicago-address-tuesday/3722572/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Whether Biden mentions President Donald Trump by name during his speech will be a main point of interest as the focus on Social Security makes it likely that the former president will take some jabs at his predecessor and successor. Biden will deliver the speech as Democrats search for new leaders who can revive a party suffering from a &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record low</a>&#8221; approval rating.
&#8220;We are deeply honored President Biden is making his first public appearance at ACRD’s sold-out conference. As bipartisan leaders have long agreed, Americans who retire after paying into Social Security their whole lives deserve the vital support and caring services they receive,&#8221; ACRD Executive Director Rachel Buck said. &#8220;As a result, we are thrilled the President will be joining us to discuss how we can work together for a stable and successful future for Social Security.&#8221;
O&#8217;Malley added, “Social Security is a sacred promise between generations. We are deeply grateful to the President for joining us at ACRD to discuss how we can keep that promise for all Americans.”
While vowing to protect Social Security, the Trump administration is looking to cut back on the Social Security Administration staff. The SSA <a href="https://blog.ssa.gov/social-security-announces-workforce-and-organization-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in February that it has &#8220;set a staffing target of 50,000, down from the current level of approximately 57,000 employees.&#8221; The staff reduction comes as Trump&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project identifies where the federal government can cut spending. The SSA is also planning on closing six regional offices that provide support and services for SSA employees, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/social-security-administration-job-cuts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Democrats have slammed the SSA cuts, arguing that the move threatens Social Security beneficiaries who rely on their monthly payments. Some Social Security beneficiaries have also complained about longer wait times on the phone and multiple outages on the “My Social Security” benefits portal since Trump made the cuts.
Trump&#8217;s senior adviser, Elon Musk, has been a primary target of Democrats&#8217; criticisms over Social Security. Musk has focused on finding fraud and waste within government programs, including entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/fact-check-president-trump-will-always-protect-social-security-medicare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> Musk last month amid controversy over comments he made about eliminating &#8220;waste and fraud&#8221; in entitlement spending.
&#8220;The Social Security Administration made an estimated $72 billion in improper payments between 2015 and 2022,&#8221; the White House said in a statement, citing a 2024 Inspector General report.

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After nearly a year-long investigation, the Chicago Police Department said the misconduct of one of its officers has been proven after he pleaded guilty to vandalizing an elderly rabbi’s car.
The news comes just days after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-pd-still-hasnt-disciplined-cop-who-pled-guilty-to-vandalizing-rabbis-car" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> that Mohammed Khan, 35, was arrested last March after he broke the side mirrors off of the vehicle of 77-year-old Rabbi Abraham Wineberg who was visiting his granddaughter and great-grandchildren in Chicago’s West Rogers Park Neighborhood. His family believes the car was targeted because it belonged to a Jew.
“It’s quite interesting that just days after The Daily Wire published on Officer Khan’s vandalism, the Chicago Police finally took action,” Wineberg’s granddaughter’s husband, Yisroel Wolf said. “They have not been forthcoming with information over the past year, so I do not think this is a coincidence.”
Weinberg’s family received an email every few months from the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs telling him that their investigation into his complaint about Khan was still ongoing. But on Tuesday they were notified the investigation was complete, and that Khan’s misconduct had been proven.
Wolf said he called the police after receiving the email, who told him Khan had been temporarily stripped of his policing duties and will undergo an internal process to determine what action to take.
“There is an internal investigation into this, and the process remains ongoing,” a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department told The Daily Wire. The spokesperson did not immediately give a clarification after being presented with the email sent to Wolf.
Khan was seen in surveillance footage from around 2:30 a.m. on March 3, 2024, where he first issued a parking ticket to Wineberg, who was illegally parked in Khan’s private handicapped spot, issued to accommodate Khan’s handicapped family member. Khan was off duty at the time and driving his personal vehicle.
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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Khan was caught kicking an elderly rabbi’s car mirrors after issuing a ticket.
Rabbi Abraham Wineberg’s family believes he was targeted for being a Jew.
Khan pleaded guilty last year but has faced no discipline from the police force. <a href="https://t.co/XzsTeJW7MX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/XzsTeJW7MX</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1904252224361914879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Footage shows Khan peering through the rear window at Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia. He then returned on foot and was seen in the footage kicking off one of the vehicle’s mirrors, which was left dangling by its wire. A few minutes later, he is seen from another angle returning again to break the other mirror, which Wineberg’s family says was completely cut off with a tool. The vehicle was then later towed.
The next morning, Khan is seen on footage talking to a second police officer, who issued another ticket around 10 a.m. Khan — whom the family had never spoken to before — told Wolf that morning that he was unsure who damaged the vehicle.
“When we confronted him the next day, he tried to use his status as a police officer to get out of the crime, telling me ‘I’m a police officer, I would never do such a thing, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” Wineberg told The Daily Wire. “That’s how we realized he was the one who wrote the ticket.”
The ticket issued, which was viewed by The Daily Wire, has an illegible signature in the “issued by” section.
“He didn’t legibly sign his name or put his badge number on the ticket, so he knew he was doing something wrong,” Wolf said.
Wolf added that he thought it was unusual the car was towed because after speaking to his neighbors, it’s more typical to just ticket illegally parked cars.
“I believe the act is deeper than road rage because Khan left the scene and then returned twice, once with a tool to cut the mirror,” Wolf said. “It is evident that Khan targeted the car because it belonged to a Jew.”
Khan was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 10 hours of anger management, and $800 to pay for damages, according to Wolf.
The family filed a complaint to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division earlier this month to seek action. The complaint seeks damages under the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and common law of the State of Illinois for malicious acts that damage property.
The suit alleges that the incident caused Wineberg “a great amount of stress and emotional distress” which was compounded “by the realization that Khan had evidently acted in such a fashion after noticing that the owner of the car was likely Jewish.”
Wolf said the ordeal was deeply upsetting for his family because his wife’s grandparents were coming to meet his newborn daughter for the first time and had to drive home in an unsafe vehicle.
“He left very upset, it pretty much ruined the entire weekend for him and their drive back to Michigan was very scary because my grandmother had to act as the mirror and look out for him because we could only tape on one mirror as the other was missing,” Wolf said. “For people their age, that is very scary.”
Wolf said Wineberg accidentally parked in the handicapped spot because it was dark and he was unfamiliar with the neighborhood.
Khan has been a full-time, active Chicago police officer since 2017, <a href="https://www.ptb.illinois.gov/resources/officer-lookup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to public records</a>.

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A Chicago police officer has yet to face any disciplinary action from his police force after pleading guilty to vandalizing an elderly man’s car, according to the victim’s family, who believe the car was targeted because it belongs to a Jew.
Mohammed Khan, 35, <a href="http://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/Arrests/Details/18284442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> last March after he broke the side mirrors off of the vehicle of 77-year-old Rabbi Abraham Wineberg who was visiting his granddaughter and great grandchildren in Chicago’s West Rogers Park Neighborhood.
Khan was seen in surveillance footage from around 2:30 a.m. on March 3, 2024, where he first issued a parking ticket to Wineberg, who was illegally parked in Khan’s private handicapped spot, issued to accommodate Khan’s handicapped family member. Khan was off duty at the time and driving his personal vehicle.
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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Khan was caught kicking an elderly rabbi’s car mirrors after issuing a ticket.
Rabbi Abraham Wineberg’s family believes he was targeted for being a Jew.
Khan pleaded guilty last year but has faced no discipline from the police force. <a href="https://t.co/XzsTeJW7MX">pic.twitter.com/XzsTeJW7MX</a>
&mdash; Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1904252224361914879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Footage shows Khan peering through the rear window at Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia. He then returned on foot, and was seen in the footage kicking off one of the vehicle&#8217;s mirrors, which was left dangling by its wire. A few minutes later, he is seen from another angle returning again to break the other mirror, which Wineberg’s family says was completely cut off with a tool. The vehicle was then later towed.
<div id="attachment_896847" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-896847" class="wp-image-896847 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Evidence of vandalism on Rabbi Wineberg&#8217;s vehicle.</div>
The next morning, Khan is seen on footage talking to a second police officer, who issued another ticket around 10 a.m. Khan — whom the family had never spoken to before — told Wineberg’s granddaughter&#8217;s husband, Yisroel Wolf, that morning that he was unsure who damaged the vehicle.
“When we confronted him the next day, he tried to use his status as a police officer to get out of the crime, telling me ‘I’m a police officer, I would never do such a thing, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” Wineberg told The Daily Wire. “That’s how we realized he was the one who wrote the ticket.”
The ticket issued, which was viewed by The Daily Wire, has an illegible signature in the “issued by” section.
“He didn’t legibly sign his name or put his badge number on the ticket, so he knew he was doing something wrong,” Wolf said.
Wolf added that he thought it was unusual the car was towed because after speaking to his neighbors, it’s more typical to just ticket illegally parked cars.
“I believe the act is deeper than road rage because Khan left the scene and then returned twice, once with a tool to cut the mirror,” Wolf said. “It is evident that Khan targeted the car because it belonged to a Jew.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_896837" style="width: 786px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-896837" class="wp-image-896837 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/JEWISH-MATERIAL-IN-CAR-776x576.jpg" alt="" width="776" height="576" />Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia in Rabbi Wineberg&#8217;s car.</div>
Khan was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 10 hours of anger management, and $800 to pay for damages, according to Wolf.
Wolf receives an email every few months from the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs telling him that their investigation into his complaint about Khan is still ongoing, despite Khan pleading guilty.
The family’s patience has run out and they filed a complaint to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division earlier this month to seek action. The complaint seeks damages under the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and common law of the State of Illinois for malicious acts that damage property.
The suit alleges that the incident caused Wineberg “a great amount of stress and emotional distress” which was compounded “by the realization that Khan had evidently acted in such a fashion after noticing that the owner of the car was likely Jewish.”
“Why is Khan still in the force? Why are they still investigating? He already pleaded guilty. If this was a Jewish cop and a Muslim victim would this be the same story?”
Wolf said the ordeal was deeply upsetting for his family because his wife’s grandparents were coming to meet his newborn daughter for the first time and had to drive home in an unsafe vehicle.
“He left very upset, it pretty much ruined the entire weekend for him and their drive back to Michigan was very scary because my grandmother had to act as the mirror and look out for him because we could only tape on one mirror as the other was missing,” Wolf said. “For people their age, that is very scary.”
Wolf said Wineberg accidentally parked in the handicapped spot because it was dark and he was unfamiliar with the neighborhood.
Khan has been a full-time, active Chicago police officer since 2017, <a href="https://www.ptb.illinois.gov/resources/officer-lookup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to public records</a>.

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A parents group is asking the Trump administration to investigate Chicago Public Schools over its racially-focused success plan only for black students.
Parents Defending Education filed a <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Chicago-Public-Schools_OCR_with_hyperlinks_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil rights complaint</a> with the Department of Education on Friday requesting a probe into Chicago Public Schools over its “Black Student Success Plan.” Parents Defending Education believes that the district is likely violating federal civil rights law and the Fourteenth Amendment.
The <a href="https://www.cps.edu/globalassets/cps-pages/initiatives/black-student-success-plan/black-student-success-plan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> was developed with input from the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff for Chicago Public Schools, including Chief Equity Officer Fatima Cooke.
“Chicago Public Schools has identified a critical priority to improve outcomes for Black students in the district. While there have been efforts to expand access, there remains persistent gaps in opportunities for Black students,” according to notes compiled by the developers of the plan.
“This working group is charged with engaging in a deep equity-focused planning process that will result in a comprehensive set of targeted recommendations aimed at determining the appropriate inputs that support closing outcome gaps for Black students in the district,” they added.
The developers of the plan also said that a “scarcity of Black educators” in the district was contributing “to a lack of shared real-time knowledge.”
Included in the justification for the plan was data discussing the poor academic performance of black students. In its complaint, Parents Defending Education noted that the data included showed that other races, like Hispanics, were struggling at similar or greater levels in things like reading.
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“Although the slideshow suggests improvements only for black students, it acknowledges that Chicago students of all races struggle academically,” the complaint from Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily said. “In other words, CPS is failing students of all races and ethnicities, which makes this racially segregated program all the more egregious.”
Neily wrote that Chicago Public Schools&#8217; “Black Student Success Plan” likely violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prevents federal funds from going toward programs that discriminate on the basis of race.
The complaint also noted that the Department of Education sent out guidance last week warning schools to steer clear of distributing programs based on race.
“Put simply, educational institutions may neither separate or segregate students based on race, nor distribute benefits or burdens based on race,” the department wrote in a “Dear Colleague” <a href="https://www.ed.gov/media/document/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on February 14.
Neily asked for the department to “conduct a full and complete Title VI audit” of Chicago Public Schools to determine what other racially-based policies may be in place.
Parents Defending Education has previously <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/lausd-overhauls-120-million-black-students-program-after-activists-file-complaint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been successful</a> in challenging a similar program put out by Los Angeles Unified School District. That district had to ensure that its student success plan was available to all races after originally rolling out a “Black Student Achievement Plan.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month directing the removal of “anti-American ideologies” from public schools and ending federal funding for grants or contracts pushing leftist ideology.

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The Trump administration reportedly filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the city of Chicago, Cook County, and the state of Illinois over their sanctuary laws that shield illegal aliens from deportation, arguing that they interfere with federal law enforcement’s operations.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-news/trump-administration-sues-chicago-state-of-illinois-over-sanctuary-laws-and-vows-more-lawsuits-to-come/">lawsuit</a> argues that the jurisdictions have adopted policies that inhibit the federal government’s ability to enforce federal immigration law.
“We’ve identified Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County as all having laws and ordinances on the books that impede federal immigration enforcement, in particular the Chicago Welcoming ordinance, the Illinois Trust Act,” one unnamed Department of Justice official told the New York Post.
President Donald Trump’s newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi explained the significance of the suit and accused the municipal, county, and state governments of prioritizing illegal aliens over Americans.
“For too long, leaders in Illinois and Chicago have abused their power by putting the comfort of illegal aliens over the safety and welfare of their own citizens. This ends today,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-news/trump-administration-sues-chicago-state-of-illinois-over-sanctuary-laws-and-vows-more-lawsuits-to-come/">she said</a>. “The Department of Justice will no longer stand by as state and local leaders obstruct federal law enforcement efforts, endangering their citizens and the brave men and women in uniform.”
One of the laws targeted by the suit, the Illinois Trust Act, which was signed into law in 2017, states: “State law does not currently grant State or local law enforcement the authority to enforce federal civil immigration laws.”
There’s also Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, which prohibits city officials from detaining people on the basis of their status as illegal aliens. “No agency or agent shall: arrest, detain or continue to detain a person solely on the belief that the person is not present legally in the United States,” reads the ordinance.
The suit specified how these policies interfere with federal law enforcement agent’s ability to enforce immigration law, noting that the jurisdictions “refuse to cooperate with detainers” lodged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “So instead of handing over people who are in prison or in jail to federal immigration authorities they will just let folks go,” the lawsuit states.
“This lawsuit will put the spotlight on obstruction by state and local officials and their refusal to support the administration and compliance with the law. The law says people who are here illegally are not allowed to stay here, they should be deported. So we want to make sure those impediments are taken away,” a DOJ official told the Post.
“These states and localities advertise themselves as sanctuary jurisdictions. They are inviting people here who are illegal, and they’re promising to protect them from federal law enforcement,” the official went on to say, noting that the case could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
The DOJ official charged that the laws currently “need to be struck from the books because they’re incentivizing illegal immigration into the country.”
The suit comes just one day after AG Bondi was sworn into office. Bondi addressed sanctuary cities in her day one directives, ordering the federal government to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-directs-doj-to-halt-federal-funding-for-sanctuary-cities">halt funding</a> to sanctuary cities.
“She is right out of the gate sending a clear message to other sanctuary jurisdictions,” another unnamed DOJ official said.

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The mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City were invited to testify before the House Oversight Committee regarding their sanctuary city policies for illegal immigrants.
“Sanctuary jurisdictions and their misguided and obstructionist policies hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals from American communities, making Americans less safe,” committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) wrote in the letters to each mayor.
Comer’s letter requested documents and information related to each city’s sanctuary policies and invited Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams to testify on February 11. 
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NEW: Boston&#8217;s Mayor Wu has been invited to testify in Congress about the city&#8217;s sanctuary city policies that &#8220;hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/gDj5fp78JD">pic.twitter.com/gDj5fp78JD</a>
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Comer also accused sanctuary jurisdictions of taking it “upon themselves to decide what laws they will and will not abide by all for the purpose of shielding removable aliens, especially criminals, from federal law enforcement.”
While there are 12 states and hundreds of cities that qualify as sanctuary jurisdictions, Comer said Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City “stand out in their abject failure to comply with federal law.”
Chairman Comer will be <a href="https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1883998691507462467/photo/4">launching an investigation</a> into the mayors, according to a post on X by the House Oversight Committee.
“All four major cities are sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, which is impacting public safety and the effectiveness of federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws of the United States,” the tweet states.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-doubles-down-on-defying-trump-deportations-as-ma-police-arrest-migrants-for-child-rape">previously reported</a> on Wu’s plans to defy Trump&#8217;s deportations in November, stating she had no intention of rolling out the welcome mat” for the Trump administration.
“What we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way; that we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and having large-scale economic impacts,” Wu said at the time.
Trump border czar Tom Homan responded to Wu, questioning her intelligence and stating that she should either help or “get the hell out of the way,”
“She’s not very smart, I’ll give her that,” Homan said. “President Trump’s going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or governor doesn’t want public safety threats out of their communities? That’s your number one responsibility, to protect your communities, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”
Thousands of migrants have been deported so far under the Trump administration including pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists. Extremely violent offenders have been deported from the Boston area including eight <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/extremely-violent-offenders-undocumented-migrants-with-criminal-records-nabbed-boston-ice-raid/KXKS25PYLBB2VMQ7BRTZX2SPRA/">last week,</a> who were gang members or criminals charged with crimes ranging from sexual assault to rape and murder.

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