US EditionSenate to question military leaders on Trump’s National Guard deployments
Senators will scrutinize legality, states' rights, and operational impacts of over 4,000 National Guard troops deployed without governors' consent, amid recent shootings and court rulings.
- On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee will question Pentagon leaders over President Donald Trump's National Guard deployments in U.S. cities amid recent legal setbacks.
- Trump called up more than 4,000 California National Guard troops in June without Gov. Gavin Newsom's approval to support immigration enforcement, marking the first such activation in decades and including deployments to Washington, D.C., Illinois, Oregon, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
- Two West Virginia National Guard members were shot near the White House; one died after the Nov. 26 shooting, while federal judges limited deployments in California, Portland, and Chicago.
- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., threatened to hold up the annual defense bill and pressed the Pentagon on Guard readiness, training, costs and legal protections for Guard members.
- U.S. Northern Command says about 100 California troops remain in Los Angeles guarding federal buildings; troop totals fell to several hundred by late October and the White House plans to appeal.
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Cotton defends Trump’s National Guard deployments to U.S. cities, compares them to Central High crisis | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Thursday defended President Donald Trump's ability to deploy the National Guard to various cities, a subject of legal challenges and debate among lawmakers.
Pentagon leaders defend Trump’s mobilization of Guard in US cities
Pentagon leaders faced members of Congress on Thursday for the first time since President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard in American cities. During the hearing, held by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrats lambasted the mission as an egregious abuse of power by the president, while Republicans contended the effort was “essential” to protect the homeland. In June, Trump — in response to protests against his immigration policie…
General contradicts Trump on 'enemy within' during National Guard hearing
The head of U.S. Northern Command on Thursday contradicted President Trump’s assertion that an “invasion [from] within” or an “enemy within” justifies the commander in chief’s National Guard deployments to American cities. “I do not have any indications of an enemy within,” Gen. Gregory Guillot told Senate Armed Services Committee lawmakers when asked about Trump’s [...]
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milescitystar.comThe Latest: Congress clashes at hearings over Guard deployments, immigrant arrests
Senators clashed over President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in American cities. Republicans defended the deployments as necessary to fight lawlessness and Democrats called it an extraordinary abuse of military power that violates states’ rights. The questioning of…
U.S. Senate to question military leaders on Trump’s National Guard deployments
Senators for the first time are poised to question military leaders over U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in American cities, an extraordinary move that has prompted legal challenges as well as questions about states’ rights and the use of the military on U.S. soil.
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