>> The Trump administration's decision to freeze funds for federal grants and loans created widespread confusion and ICE agents carry out enforcement raids across the Chicago area amid a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Here with all that and more is our spotlight politics team Amanda Vicki, Heather Sharon and to Nic Bloomberg.

Ok?

So before we get to all of that, let's just hear a little bit of what Mayor Johnson had to say today about that controversial federal funding pots.

>> This is something that is well outside the purview of the executive office.

These appropriations have been mandated by the legislative branch.

Fees are lost.

>> Okay.

and a little bit of late breaking news on that funding freeze, what can you tell us?

We mentioned a little bit of an earlier.

Yeah, it did.

There has been an order from a federal judge that temporarily put on hold hold.

And so money will keep flowing.

But but but but but folks are still very much on edge.

I mean, this is a temporary hold on a judge until just Monday.

There is a lawsuit that this is because of a lawsuit filed by a bunch of really organizations representing nonprofits, but a group of democratic lead states, including Illinois, have also filed suit separately.

So you have that going?

I think either way, this is an immense amount of unease at this point.

It will add that something else that is change.

Perhaps he saw strays earlier.

That element was unable to access the Medicaid portal that really allows dollars to flow for this is government program that provides low-income folks essentially health insurance.

Illinois is now able to get back on board with that.

There's some controversy as to what happened and why.

But access is once again okay on new Trump administration that the decision to pause its federal grants was already having an impact.

You access to health care.

And we heard from Governor Pritzker a little bit earlier.

I mean, what else did he tell us?

I mean, he had a lot to say, not surprisingly, he is upset about this at their belief is very much that this is an illegal move President Trump's administration.

The governor said that this is not only illegal, but he said this is cruel and he said do not buy some of the defense that you heard from the new White House press secretary that perhaps that outage, for example, with the Medicaid website was just some sort of computer glitch or a website problem.

He said, no, you cannot believe the Trump administration and that he believes that instead this was either incompetence.

Is you heard the governor say in this hot or that this is again, Trump lying?

I also spoke by the way with Congressman Brad Schneider.

He said that he believes that this whole exercise is really and means of saving funding so that you can instead have the Trump administration passed through these tax breaks to he said friends like all of our case and Elon Musk, okay.

Nick, what impact could this have funding transportation funding, particularly the red line extension yet that big ticket item that everybody has been paying so much attention to 1.9 billion dollars in federal funding that was approved.

>> Last month there was a big ceremony to celebrated.

You know, earlier this month there was a real effort to get that agreement signed and get moving on that project before the change in administrations.

I spoke with the CTA spokesperson earlier today who said that, you know, the CTA does not believe that this has any, you know, this.

This pause does not have any effect that the CTS law department is kind of reviewing the order.

But you know that when you look at the long list of, you know, when they put out a guidance from, you know, from the Trump administration showing all the many grant programs, it's not necessarily ones that just do these, you know, quote, unquote, you know, sort of wokeism things that we heard from in that press conference.

It is, you know, buses and trains.

It is.

Pipeline safety is, you know, ports.

There's all sorts of funding just on the transportation side and well beyond that.

don't really have any ideological you know, backing to them.

And that have had long bipartisan support.

So for now, CTA says they're confident that their that red line money is going to come through.

But obviously, with all the people we've seen, it had its anybody's The attorney general of several attorneys general of several states, including our own crime role.

They are asking the courts to block the spending, freeze them and it sounds like it is a different suit that has actually achieve that temporary stay for now.

But on what grounds are the attorneys general challenging this?

Well, they're saying that the impact Ernie General role said that this was an inauguration, not a coronation.

>> And then president does not have unilateral ability to cancel funding that Congress has passed into law and provided for said this is really separation of powers sort of argument.

And I'll add that this is really a very similar coalition.

Do what we saw.

I've trying to take away file lawsuits against the birthright citizenship executive order.

So you're seeing these democratic lead states really come together and they're calling themselves the coalition.

So we also heard from police Superintendent Larry Snelling today and he talked about immigration raids.

Of course, everybody's been covering this week that are happening in the city.

Here's a little bit of what he said.

>> What we have not seen is that we have not seen federal agents running through Chicago looking for children.

going to work locations in grabbing people.

>> Heather, what do we know about the scale of the raids in Chicago so far?

Superintendent Snelling told us today that he believes about 100 people have detained not just in Chicago, but sort of the ship, greater Chicagoland area when he couldn't tell us whether any those people have criminal records.

Now, the Trump administration has been saying that they're going after, quote, unquote, the worst of the worst people who has been convicted of serious crimes and moving to deport them.

But it's not clear whether they are also seeking to detain people who are otherwise law-abiding people living in Chicago but committed a crime by entering the country illegally or staying overstaying their permission.

And that I think is the fundamental question that a lot of Chicagoans are focused on and are worried about because there's not a lot of information coming from the federal government and it's leading to more of that fear and I pressed superintendent snowing on this because he really sort of went to great lengths to try to tell people to calm down, to go to school, to go, to work, to go about their business.

But if he can't tell Chicagoans that federal agents are not picking up sort of not criminals, I think that that is cold comfort to a lot of people who worry about taking their kids school, but not being able to pick them up afterwards.

And that I think is a really tough position for a lot of Chicagoans to be.

And tonight, a guarantee that that he can't it sounds like, you know, the Trump administration, like you said, they had said that they would prioritize.

>> People, migrants who were criminals.

But it sounds like we don't necessarily know a whole lot about the folks at they have rounded up so far and as we heard earlier, Mayor Johnson, he's been called to testify before Congress along with the mayors of 3 other sanctuary cities.

Boston, Denver, New York City.

But he's declining to respond in declining to tell us why he's declining to respond Why is that what's going Well, he sort of deferred all questions to the city's top lawyer, Mary Richardson, Larry, his who said, look, this is a legal process.

They sent us a letter.

Our lawyers are going to look at it.

We're going to respond and we're going to handle it step by step.

>> It's clear that the Republican controlled House sort of scenes.

This is the first step toward stripping Chicago of all of its federal funds, which was another one of President Trump's early executive's orders.

So the stakes for the city are very high.

The city gets roughly 4 billion dollars in federal aid every year.

So this is not something that the mayor or anybody sort of working for the city wants to respond sort of without thoughtfulness.

What did strike me as interesting is Richardson Lowry was very pointed in her defense of the city's welcoming city ordinance, its status as a sanctuary city, which, of course, is designed to reassure undocumented immigrants that they can get the needed services healthcare police protection.

The other things that they need.

But she said we do not.

you've left even when asked.

And I thought that that is perhaps a signal