Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday strongly condemned the prospect of President Donald Trump forcefully deploying the National Guard in New York City, an idea he floated after doing the same in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The governor didn’t say what exactly she might – or frankly could – do in order to prevent such a move, but she suggested that she would keep the state’s National Guard members busy to make it harder for Trump to federalize them.

Speaking to reporters at an unrelated press conference in Queens, Hochul pointed to decreases in major crime in the city over the past several years and praised the work of the New York City Police Department. “If he crosses that bright line and decides that the 32,000 dedicated members of the NYPD are not doing their jobs, (if) he's going to st

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