Chicago residents are bracing for potential activation of the National Guard.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, September 8th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

This weekend, President Trump threatened Chicago with mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

In a post on his social media network, Truth Social, he wrote,

Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War.

As a reminder, on Friday, Trump signed an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense.

The post was accompanied by an edited picture of himself as a character from the Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now.

The picture showed him beside a ball of flames and helicopters zooming over the nation's

third largest city. Again recalling the movie, The Post also said, I love the smell of deportations

in the morning. Trump's threats come as his administration is escalating its effort against what he

has characterized as rampant crime in

democratic-led cities and states.

Yesterday, Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, had this warning for sanctuary cities.

Those are cities with immigrant-friendly policies.

You can expect action in most sanctuary cities across the country. President

Trumps prioritized sanctuary cities because sanctuary cities knowingly release illegal aliening public

safety threats to the streets every day. In fact, research has consistently shown that sanctuary

city policies have no significant impact on crime.

States face massive new costs under Trump's budget cuts. That's number two.

Trump's one big beautiful bill, as it is officially called, extends tax cuts from his first term that were set to expire.

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