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4. California governor plans troop withdrawal

Mon Feb 11, 2019, 09:40 PM

Feb 2019

By Lindsey Bever February 11 at 11:08 AM

... Newson will explain his reasoning Tuesday during his State of the State address, according to the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, which obtained excerpts of his speech. The governor plans to reassign the soldiers to help with wildfire prevention and combat drug smuggling across the state, according to local reports ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/11/california-governor-plans-pull-national-guard-troops-states-southern-border/?utm_term=.5cc359f897e0

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