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The governor held a news conference in Springfield Wednesday
after attending the inauguration of the Senate.
Pritzker has repeatedly criticized President-elect Donald Trump
and his policies, and was asked if he will continue to
“Trump-proof” Illinois.
“We are doing the best we can to try to predict the things that
might happen, especially the things that would have the biggest
negative impact on the people of the state of Illinois,” said
Pritzker. “I’m worried about health care. Changing the rules
around Medicaid so that people would get excluded and we might
have hundreds of thousands of people who would go without health
care, so we’re worried about that.”
There was talk in Washington D.C. about clawing back a federal
loan given to electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian. The governor
said this week in Normal that Trump ally and Tesla owner Elon
Musk seems to be behind the threat and said his administration
has already addressed the possibility.
“Just as I am about protecting the people of the state, I am
about protecting the workers of the state and the companies of
the state of Illinois,” Pritzker said.
Pritzker has vowed to protect noncitizen immigrants in Illinois
after Trump takes office, but said felons should be evicted from
the country.
“Someone who is not a U.S. citizen and entered this country
without any documentation or permission, people who commit
violent crimes who are in that category shouldn't be here,” he
said.
It has been an eventful week for Pritzker. A bill regulating
hemp products that the governor backed failed to advance amid
in-fighting among Illinois Democrats, resulting in Pritzker
criticizing the speaker of the House and the mayor of Chicago. |
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