A member of the National Guard stands next to a military vehicle parked in front of the Union Station, near the US Capitol in Washington, on Monday, August 18, 2025 (photo of Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
This report has been updated.
Washington – six Republican governors are sent by over 1,000 members of the National Guard to the Colombia district after President Donald Trump activated 800 members from the District Guard last week as part of his federal takeover of the capital of the country.
The distribution would bring the total number of national guard soldiers to about 2060 in 68 square miles of the district, after the declaration of the president’s “crime”, despite the fact that the brutal crimes in the district is 30 years aged.
Because the district, a house for over 700,000 inhabitants, is not a state, the president has exclusive power over members of the National Guard.
The president not only activated the National Guard, but thanks to the Act on domestic districts, he uses 3400 police members of the Police Department of the Metropolitan Police Department for Immigration Law enforcement.
It is expected that over 1,000 members of the National Guard sent from the United States will come to the district on Monday and for the coming days and it is expected to be armed, According to Wall Street Journal.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry will send 150 members; Ohio Governor Mike Dewine will send 150 military police from the National Guard of his state; Mississippi gov. Tate Reeves will send 200 members; South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster approved 200 members; Tennessee Governor Bill Lee will send 160 members of the National Guard; and Governor West Virginia Patrick Morrisey He will send to 400 members of the National Guard.
McMaster and Morrisey added that the federal government will cover the costs of distributing state troops.
Unknown as long as the guard will remain
It is not clear how long the members of the National Guard will remain on duty in the district. Members of the National Guard are usually distributed in the case of natural disasters and kept their reserve. Most have civilian works and families, from which they are distracted when they are activated.
The Department of Defense did not answer the request of the states of Newsroom for comment.
The president has 23 days in his emergency declaration and signaled that he wants to extend the crisis situation longer, as well as ask for financing from the Congress to finance his plans to the district. He managed federal law enforcement officers not only of conducting local police, but also about the settlement of homeless camps.
It is not for the first time Republican governors will signal that they will distribute the members of the National Guard at the request of Trump. Kim Reynolds from Iów said that she would send the army to aid the mass deportation of Trump’s administration.
The POSSE Comitatus Act of 1878 basically charges the utilize of the army for national law enforcement.
Governor Vermont Phil Scott, a Republican, refused to ask for Trump’s administration to send a national guard to the district, in accordance with Vermont Public.
Dewine, McMaster and Morrisey said Pentagon had applied for additional members of the National Guard.
What other states can the implementation see?
Your Newsroom contacted the offices of all 27 Republican governors to ask if Trump’s administration asked members of the National Guard.
According to spokesmen in these offices, the administration did not submit any applications to Georgia, southern Dakota and Virginia. Maryland, who borders the district and is run by the democratic Governor of Wes Moore, did not receive a request from the Pentagon to send members of the National Guard, according to the spokesman for the Moore office.
Governor Oklahoma Kevin Stitt said that there are no current plans to arrange national guard soldiers from the state.
Laura Strimple, director of the communication of republican governor Jim Pillen from Nebrask, said in a statement that the governor supported the “president’s initiatives aimed at limiting the crime and cleaning of the streets in the capital of our country, including the placement of the Metropolitan Police under the Federal Management and the task of the Cololumba National Guard and the national ward of the National Guard and the National Guard District National Cololumbia. “
“At that time, the National Guard in Nebraska is not part of this mission,” she added.
A spokesman for the Republican Governor in Florida Ron Desantis did not answer directly to the question of the state whether the state that was preparing for Hurricane category 4 received from Trump’s administration a request to send members of the National Guard to the district.
“We are ready to mobilize all resources necessary in response to the federal priorities of President Trump,” said the spokesman.
The rest of the state offices did not respond to the requests of the states of Newsroom for comment.
