Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) threatened on Monday to withdraw National Guard troops stationed in Washington, D.C., for the semiquincentennial if the Trump administration characterizes them as part of another “Safe and Beautiful Mission.”
There are around 170 Michigan National Guard members stationed in the capital from June 10 through August 31 as part of the Trump administration’s summer surge to patrol streets during celebrations for the country’s 250th anniversary of independence. In a letter to Paul Rogers, the head of the Michigan National Guard, Whitmer reiterated she designated those troops for use only in the “non-partisan” mission to keep the city safe for the semiquincentennial and not as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-crime initiative using military troops to make the district “safe and beautiful.”
