South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) revealed Saturday that he has authorized the deployment of 200 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., in support of President Trump’s “restore law and order” mission in the nation’s capital.
“I’ve authorized the deployment of 200 S.C. National Guardsmen to support President Trump in his mission to restore law and order to our nation’s capital. The federal government will pay for this deployment under Title 32,” McMaster wrote on X.
The governor added that the troops could be recalled if South Carolina faced a natural disaster, such as a hurricane.
McMaster’s order came just hours after West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) announced that between 300 and 400 of his state’s Guard members would also be heading to D.C. Their deployment comes on top of the 800 federal officers and National Guard soldiers already sent by the Trump administration earlier in the week.
The move follows Trump’s unprecedented invocation of the Home Rule Act, which shifted control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to the Justice Department. The DOJ appointed Drug Enforcement Administration chief Terry Cole as the city’s “emergency police commissioner,” but after a legal challenge from Attorney General Brian Schwalb and concerns raised by a federal judge, the administration agreed to scale back.
Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) urged calm in an open letter to residents Friday, calling the moment “unsettling and unprecedented.” She warned that D.C.’s limited self-government “has never faced the type of test we are facing right now.”
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