Under pressure, Trump administration weighs extending National Guard deployments
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Source: POLITICO
A plan to keep 40,000 troops on coronavirus duty through July awaits the president’s approval.
05/20/2020 08:46 PM EDT
Trump administration officials are preparing plans to extend the federal deployment of more than 40,000 National Guard members performing coronavirus relief work across the country, after scores of lawmakers moved to pressure President Donald Trump to keep the Guards in place past June.
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White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley did not confirm or deny whether Trump planned to authorize an extension past the current cutoff date of June 24, saying that "We will continue monitoring the impact of coronavirus in the states and will work to ensure they are equipped to respond."
On Tuesday, POLITICO first reported on a recording of Trump administration officials discussing the June 24 cutoff, its implications for Guard members’ benefits and the hardship it would cause states grappling with the pandemic, particularly as they attempt to prevent new outbreaks by identifying and isolating people who’ve been exposed to possible infection.
National Guard train with hospital staff
After the report, multiple lawmakers wrote to Trump Wednesday warning that the pending June cutoff would endanger Americans who are currently relying on Guard members to deliver food to patients, run coronavirus testing sites, decontaminate infected nursing homes and perform other services that understaffed state health departments have been hard-pressed to do on their own.
In a letter first shared with POLITICO, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) ..............
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/trump-administration-extending-national-guard-deployments-272156
Members of the Army National Guard, who have been called into Manhattan to help combat the coronavirus, cross the street May 4 in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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