Walz, Hochul, Pritzker face off with Congress as Newsom battles Trump

Democratic "sanctuary governors" volition look a barrage of pugnacious questions astatine a highly anticipated legislature hearing Thursday morning, arsenic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump proceed to propulsion jabs implicit migration policy.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker volition attest earlier the House Oversight Committee and sources archer Fox that Los Angeles riots implicit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and Newsom’s conflict with Trump volition apt beryllium salient topics of discussion.  

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Fox News Digital obtained opening remarks to beryllium delivered by Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky, which volition acceptable the code for the fiery hearing. 

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is seen above. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"These Governors handcuff instrumentality enforcement from doing their jobs, harbor predators, and telephone it ‘compassion,’" Comer’s opening remarks explain. "It is NOT compassion, and it is costing lives, hurting Americans, and draining payer money. Congress indispensable see whether to defund each azygous penny of national dollars going to cities and states that prioritize transgression aliens implicit the American people." 

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"Americans privation a instrumentality to communal sense. The Trump Administration and this Republican Congress aims to reconstruct our information and sovereignty. It is past clip for these governors to enactment Americans first."

All 3 Democratic governors testifying astatine the proceeding sided with Newsom in a statement Sunday addressing Trump’s usage of the National Guard to dispel riots that person been raging implicit the past fewer days successful Los Angeles. Rioters acceptable cars connected fire, looted businesses, and clashed with instrumentality enforcement. 

Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom are squaring off. (AP Newsroom)

"We basal with Governor Newsom who has made it wide that unit is unacceptable and that section authorities should beryllium capable to bash their jobs without the chaos of this national interference and intimidation," the connection signed by Walz, Pritzker, and Hochul reads.

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Since LA’s riots, protests implicit President Trump’s migration policies person since spread to Pritzker and Hochul’s states connected Tuesday with ample gatherings successful Lower Manhattan successful New York and Federal Plaza successful Chicago, blocking disconnected streets and causing disruptions.

Fox News Digital besides received J.B. Pritzker's opening remarks, wherever the politician and imaginable 2028 statesmanlike campaigner said his authorities "could not simply disregard the suffering" amerciable migrants faced successful Illionis.

"The situation astatine the confederate borderline successful caller years has been devastating; the effect from immoderate of our governmental leaders adjacent much so," Prtizker's connection reads. "As individuals fleeing poverty, violence, and persecution arrived astatine our border, our nation's leaders were confronted with a choice: would we bash everything imaginable to marque the committedness of America the signifier of America?" 

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"Some borderline authorities governors and mayors abandoned our nation's highest ideals – alternatively of choosing to walk millions of payer dollars to dainty radical arsenic pawns, busing them to states similar ours successful a dehumanizing effort to leverage the situation for governmental gain. The State of Illinois chose a antithetic path."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. (Reuters | Getty Images)

Republican members connected the Oversight Committee spoke to Fox News Digital up of Thursday’s action, saying the 3 governors testifying "are consenting to commercialized nationalist information for left-wing virtuousness signaling."

"Democrat-run sanctuary states shield transgression aliens from national migration enforcement, enactment instrumentality enforcement successful unnecessary danger, and disregard the information of millions of Americans," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told Fox News Digital. "Seventy-seven cardinal radical gave President Trump a mandate past November to enactment an extremity to the Democrats' prioritization of amerciable aliens implicit American citizens. And he’s doing conscionable that." 

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"To folks similar Walz, Hochul and Pritzker, sanctuary authorities policies are a badge of honor. They are consenting to commercialized nationalist information for left-wing virtuousness signaling," said Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, explained to Fox News Digital. 

"Perhaps Governor Gavin Newsom volition instrumentality a interruption from defying national authorization to tune successful and spot wherefore Americans are fleeing California successful droves to flight his failed policies that invitation amerciable migrant transgression and anarchist thugs," Fallon added. 

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The signifier is acceptable for the hearing, which volition instrumentality spot connected Thursday astatine 10 AM eastbound time.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Hochul and Walz but did not person a response. 

Preston Mizell is simply a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips tin beryllium sent to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and connected X @MizellPreston