This is clean up from the Pentagon. This isn't a new deployment — it's the same group of soldiers who have been diverted from critical wildfire work and work at the border, now twiddling their thumbs for Donald Trump's political theater.
Newsom criticizes the deployment of National Guard troops as unnecessary and politically motivated.
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Our office is coordinating in real time with local and state agencies to protect the surrounding community and ensure public safety.
California has never waited for Washington or anyone else to lead on kids’ health — we’ve been out front for years, removing harmful additives and improving school nutrition.
Our places of learning and healing must never be turned into the hunting grounds this federal administration has tried to make them out to be.
It’s like a dystopian sci-fi movie. Unmarked cars, people in masks, people quite literally disappearing.
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