48 States led by both Democrat and Republican Governors have sent a warning flag to the Pentagon that its plans to empower the Secretary of the Air Force to override Governors’ determinations of the use of their own Air National Guards would destroy America’s National Guard altogether and make it a D.C.-controlled institution unable to flexibly meet the needs of the state they serve.
Ret. Maj. Gen. Francis M. McGinn, head of the U.S. National Guard Association said the new rule “This move represents a significant federal overreach that should concern governors and federal lawmakers alike. This is an attempt to bypass the longstanding authority Congress gave to governors requiring their consent before any National Guard units can be removed from their states.”
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Republican Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida
penned letters Friday condemning a proposal that would effectively allow the Democratic administration to wrest control over National Guard units away from governors across the country.The Republican duo was late to the party when signaling opposition to U.S. Air Force’s Legislative Proposal 480. The governors of 48 states and the leaders of five American territories voiced their opposition to LP480 last month in a letter to the Pentagon.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall approved the draft legislation on March 15. The Pentagon subsequently delivered
LP480 to the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 29.LP480 would enable the Secretary of the Air Force to transfer the covered space functions currently performed by the Air National Guard to the U.S. Space Force. The secretary would be enabled to change the status of an ANG unit to a unit of the USSF, to deactivate the unit, or to assign the unit to “a new Federal mission.”
