"He called the plan an "intolerable threat" that would set a "dangerous precedent.""
""I strongly oppose any attempt to sideline governors when it comes to their respective National Guards," he wrote."
""President Trump and I have a good, longstanding working relationship, and there is a substantive reason behind that," Abbott said."
Greg Abbott opposed a Biden administration plan to transfer Air National Guard units to the U.S. Space Force, calling it an "intolerable threat" and a "dangerous precedent" that would sideline governors' authority over their National Guards. A year later, Abbott said that he "fully authorized" President Donald Trump to send Texas National Guard members to Illinois and Oregon to protect federal law enforcement personnel executing immigration laws. The governors of those states objected, arguing the deployment interfered with state sovereignty. Abbott defended the deployment by asserting presidential authority to mobilize guard members to preserve public safety and citing his working relationship with Trump.
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