Gavin Newsom today will order the removal of roughly 360 National Guard members from the state’s border with Mexico and redirect them to fight drug trafficking and focus on wildfire prevention. The announcement comes one day before the governor delivers his first State of the State address. Though it will be another chapter of the California-versus-Trump story, Newsom isn’t the first governor to pull troops from the border in protest. Just last week, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the removal of most her state’s troops before Trump’s State of the Union address.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 11, 2019 13:07 UTC