'They Will Have to Pay For Them!' Trump Halts Federal Funding to Sanctuary States

<![CDATA[Consider this the natural follow-up to the La Résistance posturing from blue states and cities in response to immigration enforcement. If these jurisdictions want to create danger and violence around legitimate federal operations, Donald Trump has some options at hand. The nuclear option would be the Insurrection Act, which Trump has mentioned at times but has yet to use – although the situation in Minnesota, where Governor Tim Walz suggested the state was "at war" with the federal government and openly threatened to use the National Guard to oppose ICE, probably provided a sore temptation. ]]>