It was the Dems who requested them to begin with. Mayor Bowser sent a letter to Tom Wolf acting DHS requesting troops on Jan 9th, Trumps order was just an approval of this request.
True. They requested about 800 unarmed NG. Instead, they got 25,000 armed NG - and then complained there were too many. The mayor realized she had no control over these NG and demanded that DC be made into a state and her into a governor (so she would have control).
All NG in DC are under the control of the military, since it is a federal district.
It was the Dems who requested them to begin with. Mayor Bowser sent a letter to Tom Wolf acting DHS requesting troops on Jan 9th, Trumps order was just an approval of this request.
https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser%E2%80%99s-letter-us-department-homeland-security-acting-secretary-chad-wolf-regarding
True. They requested about 800 unarmed NG. Instead, they got 25,000 armed NG - and then complained there were too many. The mayor realized she had no control over these NG and demanded that DC be made into a state and her into a governor (so she would have control).
All NG in DC are under the control of the military, since it is a federal district.