California Governor Gavin Newsom and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a joint call on Monday for governors of all parties to unite against President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops into states that oppose the move.
Both leaders warned that if the National Governors Association (NGA) failed to denounce what they described as unconstitutional federal overreach, their states could withdraw from the organization.
In a letter to the NGA, Newsom described Trump’s actions as “an infringement of state sovereignty” and urged state leaders to take a clear stand. He emphasized that politicizing state National Guard units by sending them to other states without the home-state governor’s consent “harms the interests of states” and warned that broken norms are difficult to restore.
“If the NGA cannot unequivocally tell the federal government that it is unacceptable to deploy troops from one state to another over the objections of the Governor, California will withdraw from the group,” Newsom wrote.
