Illinois lawmakers are speaking out after a tense White House meeting Friday between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker and various members of the Illinois congressional delegation have sent a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to demand accountability for $1.88 billion in federal funding being withheld from the state.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker pressed the White House to release $1.88 billion in approved federal funding that he says the Trump administration is withholding from the state.

These frozen funds impact programs that provide technical assistance for small businesses, provide affordable solar energy for low-income residents, improve roads and bridges and more,” the Illinois lawmakers said in their letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Governor JB Pritzker, Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Tammy Duckworth, and various members of the Illinois congressional delegation issued

Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the impact that the federal cuts are having on his state, and the importance of Democratic elected officials,

Illinois lawmakers are speaking out after a tense White House meeting Friday between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The federal government owes Illinois nearly $2 billion in funding, the governor and legislators say, as they look to D.C. for answers.

Nearly $2 billion in federal funding is being withheld from Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker and lawmakers said in a letter addressed to the Trump administration.

The U.S. Constitution gives federal law authority over conflicting state law, but state lawmakers have some means to push back.

Latham & Watkins has hired Ed Siskel, White House counsel to President Joe Biden in the last year of his administration, as a partner in its Chicago and Washington offices.