Mayor Muriel Bowser opposes the deployment of National Guard troops for law enforcement duties in Washington, D.C. Bowser rejects placing armed troops at major transit hubs, monuments, or for routine crime response. Bowser argues National Guard members should not be pulled from homes, jobs, and families and should be reserved for mission-specific tasks that benefit the nation. Bowser and many Democrats have criticized the deployment as unsettling, unprecedented, and warned against normalizing troops on American streets. Bowser noted a lack of authority over other states' guards and questioned the stated crime-related rationale for the influx.
During the presser Bowser was asked, Vice President JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are about to speak at Union Station, thanking the National Guard troops, do you think placing the troops at major transit hubs or monuments is the most strategic deployment instead of, say, high-crime areas? I don't think the National Guard should be used for law enforcement, Bowser replied, adding:
And I don't calling men and women from their homes, and their jobs, and their families they have to be used on mission-specific items that benefit the nation. I don't think you have an armed militia in the nation's capital. Bowser and many of her fellow Democrats have repeatedly slammed Trump's use of the National Guard to fight crime and warned against normalizing troops on American streets.
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