JB Pritzker

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763 appearances 15 recordings 6 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 2 Jul

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Pod Save America · President of Peace Invades Chicago (feat. JB Pritzker) · 10 Oct 2025 podcast

And this is actually, because you raise it, I'll just tell you, it's why I think that governors are so important in this moment.

And I know that sounds self-serving, but I just am saying that governors, whether it's Gavin Newsom or Maura Healey or Michelle Lujan Grisham, we don't talk about all those folks all the time, but

but governors have the ability to get things done, and we have.

I mean, Tim Walz, I was just in Minnesota with him.

Boy, look at the things he's gotten done, and even with a divided 50-50 legislature.

But in Washington, I mean, so little gets done that's positive for the American people, and I think that it's a little bit like –

We need to look back to the states.

We banned prior authorizations for mental health, for example.

We've expanded health care in a massive way since I've been governor.

We raised the minimum wage $15 here now from $8.25 when I took office.

Just all of those things are things we got done at the state level that really do help people.

While the federal government is kind of like either hurting or just sitting silent and neutral and getting nothing done, it's a sad state of affairs in the country.

And I do think the 2026 elections are going to be vital for determining which direction we're really going to go.

Yeah.

Well, I think we're seeing something very unusual.

And I guess I'm going to piece a few things together for you just to make the point.

So we're seeing the agents themselves dressed as soldiers.

Marching in a major city, in several major cities, causing mayhem and hoping to bring in more soldiers, right?

These folks – nobody knows the difference between somebody wearing camouflage and holding an automatic weapon who happens to be an ICE agent and someone who's wearing the same thing, you know, who's a soldier.

So –

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