Nearly every governor opposes a Pentagon plan to unilaterally shift space-focused Air National Guard units from their purview to the U.S. Space Force.

The governors of 48 states and five territories signed on to a letter earlier this week to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressing their opposition to a proposal sent to Congress in March that would allow for the Air National Guard space operations to be incorporated into Space Force. It would effectively remove the governors’ authority over those units.