Bondi comes up against Durbin on the deployment of the Trump National Guard in Chicago

The Attorney General Pam Bondi collided with Senator Dick Durbin, D-ill., On the deployment by President Donald Trump of the National Guard troops in Chicago on Tuesday.

The scholarship occurred during the Bondi testimony before the Senate’s judicial committee, Durbin Plant Bondi to justify the deployment. Bondi refused to detail his communications with the White House concerning the move, but she said that the troops were there to protect the residents of Chicago.

“Why do you want to keep this secret?” Asked Durbin. “The American people do not know the justification for the deployment of troops of the National Guard in my state. The word is, and I think it was confirmed by the White House, they will transfer the units of the National Guard of Texas to the State of Illinois. What is the reason for being?”

“By closing the government – you voted to close the government and that you sit here – our law enforcement agents are not paid. They are there to protect you. I want you to love Chicago as much as you hate President Trump. And currently, the National Guard is on the way to Chicago. If you do not protect your citizens, President Trump Will,” replied.

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The Attorney General Pam Bondi is sworn in before a surveillance hearing of the Senate Judicial Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Tuesday, October 7, 2025. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)

The couple continued to discuss as Durbin said that Trump’s budgetary plan has reduced the financing of certain law enforcement programs in Illinois. Bondi said that she “would work with” her office if he called specific programs.

“Tell me a specific subsidy that I deactivated in Illinois which would help the police, and I will work with you, but you did not do this,” said Bondi.

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“The National Guard is on the way. Right now, as we are talking about, the same is true

Durbin replied: “It’s my job to make you grill.”

FBI director Kash Patel, confirmed in an X post that he was linked to Chicago on Tuesday morning.

“Chicago will be saved, and this FBI will continue to crush violent crimes there, and across the country. Heading the Windy City now,” Patel wrote.

The member of the Senate’s Judicial Committee, Dick Durbin, D-ill., Is expressed during a surveillance hearing before the Senate judicial committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, October 7, 2025. (AP photo / Allison Robbert)

The exchange between Bondi and Durbin comes only a few days after the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker and the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, continued to prevent Trump from deploying troops in Chicago.

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State and city leaders are looking for an emergency prohibition order to immediately trigger Trump’s efforts and longer -term injunctive relief. They claim that Trump plans to “use American soldiers to punish his political enemies”.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker speaks during a press conference in the midst of federal deployment reports in Chicago. (Kamil Krazaczynski / AFP via Getty Images)

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“We must now start to call this what he is: Trump’s invasion,” the Democratic Governor said in a statement.

Breanne Deppisch de Fox News contributed to this report