Yeah, but I have a transcript of the secret meeting that took place before he made these comments:
SF Government: We have just been following orders from the WH about this Sanctuary City stuff. People are going to say bad things to us if you scold us publicly.
Johnson: Now, look, I know you’re doing what we told you to do. I’ll get out there and pretend to be annoyed. You just keep your yap shut. Don’t forget that I have ways of cutting off those federal dollars.
Agree in principle. But the WH is too cagey for that. They backdoor the threats lest one of the big wigs in the Administration gets caught on tape. Usually from unnamed flunky in the WH.