In the face of a Trump administration directive to investigate state and local officials who don’t toe the line on the president’s orders on immigration, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said they will stand up for law-abiding residents regardless of their legal status.

After Musk initiated the war of words, Pritzker didn't hold back and hit the Tesla CEO over a recent controversy. The online spat began when Musk retweeted a video of Pritzker at a news conference, where the governor vowed to stand up against policies from President Donald Trump that he believes harm Illinois residents.

Though the White House took pains to walk back some aspects of the funding shakeup, the governor contends the damage was done — and the damage, as he sees it, was the point.

President Donald Trump's administration's funding freeze order was paused by a judge, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker blasted the executive order as "illegal."

In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump during the first week of his term, including the beginnings of a promised crackdown on migrants living in the United States and an effort to supercharge oil and gas production.

One symbolic but meaningful example of that is that he decided to order the state’s flags to full staff for Trump’s inauguration, rather than tweaking the new president with half-staff banners. It’s the act of someone trying to lower the temperature.

In Illinois, the Pritzker administration is conducting a “know-your-rights” campaign for foreign nationals in the country illegally. At an unrelated event Friday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ...

In Illinois, the Pritzker administration is conducting a “know-your-rights” campaign for foreign nationals in the country illegally. At an unrelated event Friday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ...

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.

Here’s how Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, put it on Sunday when Shannon Bream of Fox News asked him about our criticism of Mr. Trump’s decision ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is backing President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence nominee, Tulsi Gabbard. In a post on X, Cotton dismissed criticism of Gabbard as "smears" ahead of her ...

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., panned the liberal press on Saturday after the newly released CIA assessment that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China. "I’ve said from the beginning that COVID likely originated in the ...