Gov. Kathy Hochul has condemned President Donald Trump for sending troops into the streets of Washington, D.C., but she’s in no rush to withdraw hundreds of National Guard soldiers posted in New York City’s subway system on her orders.

The Democratic governor first deployed about 750 National Guard soldiers to the subways in March 2024 . She said the guard members, along with police officers, would deter would-be criminals looking to enter the transit system.

That was nearly a year and a half before Trump, a Republican, invoked his federal authority and deployed the Guard to address crime in the nation’s capital. Hochul called that move “overkill for a show of force.”

In the governor’s telling, the two deployments couldn’t be more different: Trump is imposing his will on a city and

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