Illinois' Democratic leaders vow vigorous defense of personal rights and public policies under a second-term Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The agency formalized the federal agreement in that case in early January 2017, shortly before Trump took office the first time.
57% : CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase said the agency expects to have the agreement formalized by the end of the year or early 2025, which is before Trump is set to be inaugurated.
51% : "Brandon Lee, a spokesman for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said the group wants to work with Raoul's office to make sure that state laws such as the Trust Act, which generally prohibits local police from participating in federal immigration enforcement, is on solid ground even if Trump tries to supersede it.
44% : "But I don't think Trump makes a lot of decisions based on what's good policy.
41% : The Northwest Side alderman, whose ward came close to backing Trump, rolled into a City Council hearing on Wednesday with a Trump flag affixed to his wheelchair and he punched a red and white button that played punchy clips of the president-elect.
33% : The mayor is ready to do "whatever in the law to uphold the law" if Trump moves ahead on plans for mass deportations, he added.
31% : But if Trump carries through on his plans to dismantle D.C. bureaucracy, he added, many of the Chicago projects that get federal money could still be deemed worthwhile by the Trump administration because they add jobs and make American trade more competitive.
31% : "I hate to be so pessimistic, but having governed and lived under Trump and really seen a lot of the challenges up close and personal, I am not optimistic in the short term.
29% : 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.
28% : But Pritzker sought to assuage concerns the new administration in Washington, D.C., would attack personal rights in Illinois, saying protections were placed in state law with a presidency like Trump's in mind.
28% : "Trump has a habit of saying things and not doing them.
25% : Trump has vowed to pull back unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act, and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the GOP would try to repeal the CHIPS Act if his party maintains control of the House, though he later walked back those remarks.
25% : "Lightfoot's predecessor, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, chuckled when asked about how his job changed after the White House transitioned from President Barack Obama to Trump.
24% : But Sposato also said Trump needed to lighten up on his critical rhetoric.
19% : "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.

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