08/22/2025

National Guard Troops Patrolling D.C. Streets Will Start Carrying Firearms

The DoD did not offer any other details related to the change

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump's law enforcement crackdown to start carrying firearms, the Pentagon said Friday.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) did not offer any other details about the new development or why it was needed.

The step is an escalation in Trump’s intervention into policing in the nation's capital and comes as nearly 2,000 National Guard members have been stationed in the heavily Democratic city, with the arrival this week of hundreds of troops from several Republican-led states, including Ohio.

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