Texas’ Blue-State Deployments Shred Relations Between Governors NYT | Top Stories J. David Goodman 9 October 2025 at 06:23 State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image. © Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York TimesMembers of the Texas National Guard at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Ill., a far southwest suburb of Chicago, on Tuesday.