New York Mobilizes 'War Room' as Trump Signals Possible National Guard Deployment
Governor Kathy Hochul is coordinating a plan to prevent, delay or manage any federal move into New York City.
Overview
- Politico reports that New York leaders have been meeting quietly for weeks to prepare for a potential National Guard or federal law enforcement presence in the city after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win.
- Hochul’s office has set up a virtual operations hub described as a war room to coordinate responses to any federal action.
- Planning is structured around three scenarios that aim to block a deployment, slow it if it proceeds, or manage on-the-ground realities if forces arrive.
- State homeland security director Jackie Bray said the objective is to prevent a deployment or at least delay it if prevention fails.
- Trump has said he intends to send the Guard to New York and other cities to address crime, though there has been no deployment to New York City to date.