'Stay out of Seattle': WA leaders tell Trump troops aren't needed

SEATTLE — The mayor of Washington’s biggest city and the state’s attorney general implored President Donald Trump on Monday not to send federal troops here.

This comes after Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed plans over the weekend to dispatch Oregon’s National Guard to nearby Portland. Local leaders fear Seattle could be next as the president federalizes National Guard troops and deploys them to major American cities.

“We do not need the federal government bringing in armored vehicles, semiautomatic weapons, military personnel to make us ‘safer.’ There is not an insurrection here,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a Monday morning press conference at City Hall.

“Our message today is very clear: Stay out of Seattle,” Harrell added.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/29/stay-out-of-seattle-wa-leaders-tell-trump-troops-arent-needed/