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National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., will now carry weapons for personal protection and are allowed to carry out law enforcement duties, defense officials said.
1don MSN
Trump embraces tough-on-crime mantra amid DC takeover as he and Democrats claim political wins
President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.
House and Senate Democrats, along with Washington's non-voting delegates in both chambers, argued that had Washington D.C. been a state, the president would not have been able to federalize the police force.
At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data.