As tensions rise between Illinois politicians and President Donald Trump over his plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago , the latter contrasted Democratic governors’ resistance to their desire for federal assistance on an issue that has plagued the Great Lakes for decades: invasive carp.

“There’s a way of getting rid of those, very expensive,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday, “and I didn’t get a request from the governor of Illinois, (which) is affected maybe more than anybody else, right? And I think until I get that request from that guy, I’m not going to do anything about it.”

The president was likely referring to a $1.15 billion infrastructure project at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Joliet, to build the last, multipronged lin

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