What happened

Six Republican governors announced this week they were sending National Guard soldiers to bolster President Trump's direct, militarized control of Washington, D.C., streets. The president had previously deployed 800 D.C. National Guard troops, federalized the 3,200-member D.C. police force, and surged federal officers from the FBI, ICE, DEA, and other agencies into the city. The deployment of some 1,200 troops from GOP-led states—Ohio, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Louisiana—is a significant escalation of that effort. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves justified his sending of troops by saying that crime in the nation's capital was "out of control," although the homicide rate in his own state capital, Jackson, was triple that of D.C. in 2024. D.C. Mayo

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