California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker threatened to withdraw their states from the National Governors Association if it does not condemn the Trump administration’s National Guard deployments.
In two separate letters sent on Monday, Pritzker and Newsom condemned the historically bipartisan organization for not publicly issuing a statement in opposition to the mobilization of troops to carry out domestic law enforcement duties.
The National Governors Association “has lost its voice and its way in the face of the Trump administration’s onslaught against democratic norms, including efforts to undermine the sovereignty of states as protected by the Tenth Amendment,” Newsom wrote in the letter to association members, first reported by Politico.