G.O.P. governors sent troops to Washington, while crime festers in their own cities

September 3, 2025

Republican governors of Tennessee, Texas, Ohio and Missouri dispatched their National Guard troops to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on crime.

A group of uniformed troops walk along the National Mall, with the Washington Monument and the Capitol in the background.

Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Yet cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. →

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