According to Governor Perry, obama said since they had been asking for debt reduction, the state guards would be cut and he better not hear any pushback or they would be hearing from him. This dude is acting like a punitive dictator. obama also told them all he didn’t trust them to make decisions about their own states.
Matt1234 popped me a link explaining that.
Funny thing is that the Governors could totally throw a monkeywrench in the political elite's plans with one simple order. (I sent that [rewritten a bit, and using their States's constitutions] to virtually all the State governors and only got two or three replies… some even asserting that the matter was federal even though the letter clearly showed it within the governor's powers.)