Biden admin's National Guard 'power grab' slammed by former general as governors put up rare united front

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A proposal that would reassign Air National Guard troops to the Space Force without the consent of governors is an "existential threat" to the part-time force that would erode operational efficiency and eliminate a longstanding precedent, critics say.

Legislative Proposal 480 was submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee by the Department of Defense in an effort to bolster the Space Force, the U.S. military's youngest branch created during the Trump administration. The move would override a longtime tradition that requires the Department of Defense to acquire gubernatorial approval before transferring Guard members to another military branch.

"This is really a wholesale harvesting of the units, the people, the structure, the equipment and the facilities in transferring them out of the National Guard from the governors and just placing them in the active component Space Force," retired Maj. Gen. Francis M. McGinn, president of the National Guard Association, told Fox News Digital.

Trump's Big Oil Bargain

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Former President Trump and the oil industry are sketching out audacious plans to begin dismantling President Biden's fossil fuel regulations on Jan. 20, 2025:

• At Mar-a-Lago last month, Trump asked some of the industry's top executives to help raise $1 billion for his campaign as he outlined his pro-drilling agenda for a second term, the Washington Post first reported.
• Separately, oil industry officials have begun drafting the text of oven-ready executive orders reversing the Biden administration's green policies on Day One of Trump's presidency, according to Politico.

Why it matters: The remarkably transactional Mar-a-Lago pitch underscores how much Trump — who famously vowed to "drain the swamp" of special interests — is tying his campaign fortunes to the oil and gas industry.

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