Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forces
The White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest amid legal challenges over the moves, JD Vance confirmed on Sunday.
Vance was asked on NBC News’s Meet the Press whether Donald Trump was seriously considering invoking the emergency power to deploy national guard forces and even the US military in domestic settings.
“The president’s looking at all of his options,” he said, adding that “we are talking about this because crime has gotten out of control in our cities”.
Trump’s attempts to use federal national guard forces in Democratic-run cities has faced challenges in the courts, most notably in Chicago in recent days.
