The governors of the four German states that are home to critical US military facilities have urged members of US Congress to try and force President Donald Trump to back down from plans to withdraw more than a quarter of American troops from the country, AP said.

The heads of Bavaria, Hesse, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate reportedly said in a letter that US facilities like the Grafenwoehr training area, the Ramstein and Spangdahlem air bases, the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center hospital and the headquarters of US European Command “form the backbone of the US presence in Europe and NATO’s ability to act.”

The US currently has about 34,500 troops in Germany, which Trump said in June he had ordered reduced to 25,000.

Source: RT