Vice President JD Vance said the administration has “no immediate plans” to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, after some remarks from President Donald Trump indicating that such a deployment could happen.
Vance’s remarks come after Trump on Tuesday said, “We’re going in” to the crime-heavy Midwest city, where more than 50 people were shot and eight killed during the recent Labor Day weekend.
In a Truth Social post about crime rates in the city, Trump referenced these statistics.
“The last two weekends were similar,” Trump wrote. “Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far,” and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker “needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet.”…