The Department of Homeland Security’s deputy secretary said Chicago’s Democratic mayor has reversed course and gotten on board with President Trump’s plan to send federal law enforcement into the city.

“The mayor who was saying, ‘Oh, no Trump, no federal officials, no,’ has turned 180 degrees. And you know why? Because we’re doing it cooperatively as President Trump has always offered to do,” Ken Cuccinelli, a senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary, told Fox News host Shannon Bream late Thursday. “He repeated it again today — his goal is to lower the violence. It’s to lower the carnage. It’s to bring safety to these communities.”

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