Texas Scorecard by Luca Cacciatore | May 7, 2024
The proposal would allow the Air Force to transfer Air National Guard units without the approval of governors.Gov. Greg Abbott is lambasting the Biden administration over a new proposal that would allow the United States Air Force to transfer Air National Guard units without gubernatorial approval.
In a letter to President Joe Biden, Abbott expressed his opposition to the U.S. Department of the Air Force’s Legislative Proposal 480, which is set to be included in the next National Defense Authorization Act.
The proposal allows the Air Force to transfer the guard units to the U.S. Space Force—the U.S. military’s space services arm, reconfigured to be its own branch in 2019.
Abbott warned in his letter on May 3 that “Legislative Proposal 480, put forth by the U.S. Department of the Air Force, poses an intolerable threat to the Texas National Guard.”
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