Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker lambasted the Trump administration Thursday for eliminating or threatening to end a range of anti-violence programs, saying “public safety is under attack by the Trump administration.”

At an event celebrating research highlighting the effectiveness of anti-violence interventions in Chicago neighborhoods, Pritzker rattled off a litany of cuts or proposed cuts by the administration. That included the dissolution of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, threats to slash funding for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the repeal of ”zero tolerance” for “rogue gun dealers.”

“They’re making it easier for guns to fall into our communities and harder for us to fight back,” Pritzker told a crowd in the Pullman neighborhood on the South Side.

Anti-violence workers from around the Chicago area had gathered to highlight research showing steep drops in shootings over the last two years in parts of the city where anti-violence workers have focused their efforts. The group included many ex-offenders with ties to people at high risk of being perpetrators or victims of shootings.

Pritzker, whose name has come up among potential presidential nominees, has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration, going on the offensive about cuts in many areas, including health care and education.

Pritzker also referenced a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services memo that he said he saw Thursday “that proposes eliminating entirely all federal violence intervention funds.”

Pritzker did not mince words about the potential impact.

“People will die if we cut violence and prevention,” he said. “Why is [Trump] doing this? So that he can give massive tax cuts to wealthy people in America? I think that’s wrong.”

The Health and Human Services Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the proposed cuts to federal violence intervention funds.