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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now.

I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Monday, August 18th.

Washington state officials are responding now to a letter from the federal government they got last week, demanding they end so-called sanctuary state policies.

Scott Greenstone has more.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded Washington take steps to cooperate with Trump's massive deportation

campaign. Current Washington law limits local law enforcement from working with federal immigration

authorities. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown told KUOW the letter is a scare tactic,

but the feds could try and cut federal law enforcement grants.

It's full of bluster, it's full of threats.

It's really absurd.

And it's really sad, frankly, that we have an administration that is so vindictive and reckless

with public safety

because every law enforcement agency in Washington State relies on assistance from the federal

government to some degree or another. The letter was addressed to Governor Bob Ferguson,

who posted on Facebook that Washington will not, quote, change our values in the face of threats.

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