Trump team eyes funding showdown with sanctuary cities over immigration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Trump in his first term curtailed sanctuary cities' access to some Justice Department crime-fighting grants, prevailing after a long legal fight; his boosters now want him to go far beyond that.
34% : Trump vowed mass deportations during his campaign -- eliciting fierce pushback from some Democratic mayors in "sanctuary cities" and governors in blue states, some of whom are already promising to defy the president-elect's pledges.
33% : Stephen K. Bannon, who served as a top White House adviser to Trump during his first administration, told The Post he believes Trump will be "remorseless" in rescinding federal funds -- and possibly authorizing criminal prosecutions -- of states and municipalities that do not follow the law and deportation efforts.
32% : Advisers to Trump have pushed for using federal pressure -- such as withholding federal funds -- against municipalities that don't cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on deportations, the people said.
29% : "This sanctuary cities thing will be an early administration showdown, and I believe Trump will come down as hard as you can see," Bannon said in an interview.
28% : Trump has lambasted Chicago in particular over the years as crime-ridden and corrupt and suggested that states and localities led by Democrats should get less federal assistance than those led by Republicans.
28% : Johnson told The Post that Trump is pursuing a policy of mass deportations to distract the public from his agenda to cut taxes for corporations and the rich.
25% : Trump deputized Musk and Ramaswamy to attack federal spending at all levels, from the Defense Department to health research grants to the federal workforce.
18% : Trump vowed in his campaign to challenge the 1974 law limiting the executive's ability to unilaterally cancel spending -- a plan spearheaded by Russell Vought, whom Trump has named to lead the White House budget office.
17% : The threats from Trump allies could present a staggering blow to Chicago's finances and to other jurisdictions looking to shield undocumented immigrants from what Trump has called a "mass deportation" campaign: Federal grants make up nearly 20% of Johnson's $17.3 billion 2025 budget.

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