A member of the National Guard stands in addition to a military vehicle that is parked on Monday, August 18, 2025, in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
Washington – Four Republican governors send almost 1,000 members of the National Guard to the District of Columbia after President Donald Trump activated 800 members of the district of the district as part of his federal takeover of the country’s capital.
The assignment would bring the total number of the troops of the national guard to around 1,800 in the 68 square kilometers of the district to around 1,800 after the President’s declaration of the President’s emergency, although the violent crime in the district is on a 30-year deep-sized floor.
Since the district, in which more than 700,000 inhabitants live, is not a state, the president has the only authority of its members of the National Guard.
The president not only activated the national guard, but also through the Home Rule Act des District the 3,400-member police of the Metropolitan Police Department to enforce immigration.
The 1,000 members of the National Guard sent by the states are expected to arrive in the district on Monday and in the coming days and are expected to be armed. According to the Wall Street Journal.
The governor of Ohio, Mike Dewine, will send 150 military police from the national guard of his state. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves will send 200 members. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster Approved 200 members; And West Virginia, Governor Patrick Morrisey, will send up to 400 members of the National Guard.
McMaster and Morrisey added that the federal government would cover the costs of the apply of state troops.
Unknown how long guard will remain
It is unclear how long members of the National Guard will remain on duty in the district. Members of the National Guard are usually used for natural disasters and kept in reserve. Most have civilian jobs and families from whom they are pulled by when they are activated.
The Ministry of Defense did not respond to the request from States newsroom for comments.
The president has 23 days in his emergency room and has signaled that he would extend the emergency longer and request the financing of the congress to finance his plans for the district. He has instructed the federal law enforcement officers not only to lead local police work, but also to eliminate the camp of homeless people.
It is not the first time that Republican governors signal that they will apply their members of the National Guard at the request of Trump. Kim Reynolds from Iowa said that she will send troops to support the trump government’s mass shifting plans.
And last week Tennessee said Republican Governor Bill Lee He is ready to send its members of the National Guard to the district. He added that the Secretary of the US Army, Daniel Driscoll, told him that the military could ask the states to send troops to law enforcement to the district.
The Posse Comitatus Act from 1878 generally prohibits the apply of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.
Lee’s office did not answer a comment when asked by States Newsroom.
The Republican of Vermont Governor Phil Scott rejected a request from the Trump government to send the state’s national guard to the district. Vermont public.
Dewine, McMaster and Morrisey said the Pentagon asked inquiries about additional members of the National Guard.
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The newsroom turned to the offices of all 27 Republican governors to ask whether the Trump government had requested the members of the National Guard.
According to speakers of these offices, the administration has not asked any inquiries about Georgia, South Dakota and Virginia. Maryland, which borders on the district and is led by the democratic governor Wes Moore, has not received any request from the Pentagon, according to a Moore office spokesman.
A spokesman for Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, said there were no plans for the Use of the National Guard troops from the state.
Laura Strimple, communication director of the Republican governor Jim Pillen from Nebraska, said in a statement that the governor supported the “initiatives of the president to reduce crime and to tidy up the streets in the capital of our country, including the task of the metropolitan policy under federal leadership and the district of Columbia National Guard and The national guard of several nearby states will certainly in Washington.
“At that time, the Nebraska National Guard is not part of this mission,” she added.
A spokesman for the Republican governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, did not directly answer the question of Newsroom whether the state, who prepared for the Hurricane Erin in category 4, had received a request from the Trump administration to send the members of the National Guard to the district.
“We are ready to mobilize all resources that are necessary to respond to President Trump’s priorities,” said the spokesman.
The rest of the cities did not respond to inquiries from States Newsroom for comments.
