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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

First Republican governor comes out against Trump’s deployment of National Guard

Oklahoma’s Gov. Kevin Stitt became the first Republican governor to come out and oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of Texas’s National Guard to Illinois

The Trump administration deployed hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas earlier this week as part of Trump’s push to send troops to cities and blue states under the auspices of controlling crime. A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops to send them to Chicago.

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