DC lawmakers will call on new Democratic governors to withdraw the National Guard
D.C. officials announced plans Thursday to pressure new Democratic governors in states that have gone blue to recall their National Guard troops from the district.
At a Washington Council hearing on the influx of federal law enforcement personnel and the presence of the National Guard, council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), chair of the Public Safety Committee, said congressional leaders have been “unsympathetic to what we’ve been facing and, in some cases, outright hostile.”
“But after Tuesday night, the tide turns,” Pinto said. “A tsunami of change is coming to our city. »
Pinto said about 628 National Guard members are currently deployed in Washington and come from five states that elected Democratic governors this week: Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas.
She said she would urge newly elected governors to withdraw their troops, “which they can do on their first day in office.”
Pinto, who discussed sending a letter to new governors, was supported in her call by council member Elissa Silverman (Democrat-At-Large) and former council member Robert C. White Jr., a Democrat who was just elected as D.C.’s non-voting delegate to Congress.
The presence of National Guard troops in Washington, which has proven both costly and controversial, is expected to last until January 2029.
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