Governors Split Over Mobilizing National Guard as Trump Seeks More Troops

9/4/25
THE MILITARY & DOMESTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT
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Inside a bustling Union Station, commuters and tourists breeze past armed military personnel patrolling in groups of three or four as part of President Donald Trump’s surge of National Guard troops and federal agents into the nation’s capital.

Outside on a recent weekday afternoon, Robin Galbraith stood among a handful of people protesting their presence. The retired schoolteacher from nearby Bethesda, Maryland, held a sign saying Trump is “afraid” of free and fair elections.

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