The Republican governors of Louisiana and Tennessee will send hundreds of their national guard troops to assist federal law enforcement in DC – to help assist the president’s “crime crackdown”.
They join Mississippi, Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina – who have all sent national guard troops to DC.
In a statement, Louisiana governor Jeff Landry announced that he would send 135 troops to assist the president’s “mission of restoring safety and peace in our nation’s capital”. He added that “our capital is a reflection of our nation’s respect, beauty, and standards. We cannot allow our cities to be overcome by violence and lawlessness.”
It’s important to note that New Orleans, Louisiana’s largest city, actually had the second-highest rate of homicide throughout the entire country in 2023 and 2024, according a recent report from Rochester Institute of Technology – which uses FBI and local agency data.
Meanwhile, according to the Associated Press, a spokesperson for Tennessee governor Bill Lee said that the governor had granted a request from the Trump administration for the state’s national guard members “to assist with monument security, community safety patrols, protecting federal facilities, and traffic control”.
This means that six Republican states have now sent national guard troops to the capital. The Trump administration has underscored that soldiers will not be making arrests, but assisting law enforcement and protecting federal buildings.
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