Politics & Government
Trump Names PA Gov. To Council Of Governors
President Donald Trump has appointed Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to a bipartisan panel of governors to work with federal officials.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has appointed Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to the bipartisan Council of Governors, a panel tasked with strengthening state-federal partnerships on key national security, disaster response, and military coordination issues.
The White House announced the move on Wednesday.
The 10-member council consists of five Democrats and five Republicans. The other governors appointed were Glenn Youngking of Virginia, Josh Stein of North Carolina, Ron DeSantis of Florida, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Wes Moore of Maryland, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Kathy Hochul of New York and Henry McMaster of South Carolina.
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Youngking and Stein will co-chair the council, whose members serve two year terms.
The Council of Governors was established by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 and formally created by an executive order. The order specifically names a number of federal participants in the council, including the secretaries of defense and homeland security, the president’s homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor, the commander of U.S. Northern Command and the chief of the National Guard Bureau, among others.
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Shapiro is the first Pennsylvania governor to serve on the panel.
Shapiro's appointment comes a week after he filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the ongoing freeze of federal funds despite multiple court orders to release them.Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.
