Six states send National Guard troops to Washington as Trump deploys soldiers to combat crime and federalizes the Metropolitan Police Department.

The moves come as federal agents and National Guard troops have begun to appear across the heavily Democratic city after President Trump's executive order.

The number of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., increased again on Tuesday as a sixth Republican-led state sent some of its soldiers to the nation's capital as part of the president's activation to fight what he claims is rising crime in the city.

Vermont’s Republican Gov. Phil Scott has declined to send the state’s National Guard to Washington, D.C., noting that he didn’t believe it to be a proper use of these troops.

WASHINGTON (AP) — National Guard members from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana began arriving in Washington on Tuesday to assist in President Donald Trump’s federal crackdown on crime and homelessness in the District of Columbia, according to the D.C. National Guard.

Soldiers from the Indiana National Guard's 38th Infantry Division returned home to Evansville, Indiana on Monday after serving in the Middle East for a year, where they were greeted by family and friends,

(Reuters) -Hundreds of additional National Guard troops are headed to Washington, D.C., from half a dozen Republican-led states, bolstering President Donald Trump's aggressive move to flood the city with soldiers and federal agents in what he says is an effort to fight violent crime.

South Carolina National Guard soldiers toss duffel bags on buses in January 2021 in Mt. Pleasant before heading to Washington, D.C., where they joined some 15,000 other National Guard who were protecting the U.S. Capitol from possible domestic terrorist ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is dispatching National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., this week to join the president’s law enforcement takeover in the nation’s capital. Acting on orders from President Donald Trump,