Republican senators rally behind Trump, sending troops to blue cities – even in their backyard

Senate Republicans are president Donald Trump’s Aspiring to send the National Guard to cities and states led by Democrats with high crime rates, some are reluctant to send troops to their own states to clear streets.

“Blue cities like Memphis need all the help they can get to combat violent crime,” the Senator. Martha BlackburnR-Tenn. Tell Fox News Digital in a statement.

Trump is eager to replicate his efforts to commit crimes in Washington, D.C., where he is a federal local police officer and dispatches National Guard To patrol the streets and tunnels of the metropolis, he proposed plans to send troops to Chicago and Baltimore, two blue cities in the Blue State with high crime rates.

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This possible move angered Democratic senators from Illinois and Maryland, who accused the president of playing a “political theater” in Washington, D.C. and trying to “play a dictator” with the U.S. military.

Senate Minority Whip Dick DurbinD-ill. The National Guard threat accusing Trump of “is nothing more than a power to distract his disastrous policies”, and Sen. Chris van Hollen told Fox News Digital in a statement, “Trump’s threat to invade our cities is not to distract his regretful attempts toward these forward solutions, allowing us to place these visions on these issues, and our other issues are our communities.

” Rather than politicizing our great Baltimore city, Trump knows nothing about it, he should tie it up when federal, state and local law enforcement does important work,” he said.

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Center Senator Chris Van Hollen spoke on April 18, 2025 at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

But Republicans largely supported Trump’s decision to bring the National Guard into the area and consider expanding his federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department or allowing him to completely bypass Congress to maintain control over local police after maintaining 30-day windows.

Some have welcomed the idea of ​​troops fighting city crime with open arms.

Memphis, for example, is the largest city in Tennessee and one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. Similar to Baltimore and Chicago, it is led by the Democratic mayor. Blackburn told Fox News Digital that she welcomed Trump to send troops to the city.

Always ready to support Trump’s move to hold Congress in DC’s criminal crackdown

Senator Marsha Blackburn attended a business meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 13, 2025 at the Dickson Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“I support the Trump administration’s efforts to restore law and order in cities across the United States, and I will continue to work with the President, the Attorney General [Pam] Bondy and FBI Directors [Kash] Patel did his best to make a city like Memphis safe again. ” she said.

In St. Louis, another major city has always cracked the top ten in the violence and overall crime database. Eric Schimitt, R-Mo. Recently worked with Patel to get a large amount of funding from FBI agents, known as “one of the largest per capita injections for full-time agents and Intel people in the country.”

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Schmitt said the openness to troops coming to St. Louis and alleged that “the local leaders have long focused on criminal rights than victims in the Blue City, which has made crimes rampant.”

“American families want and should feel safe in their communities, and I’m happy to see President Trump say in a statement to Fox News Digital Digital,” Schmidt said in a statement to Fox News Digital Digital Digital, “I’m happy to see Trump working to enforce the rule of law and increase public safety. “His efforts in Washington, D.C. have been a huge success, and there is no doubt that other cities can benefit from the addition of law enforcement. ”