The Latest Breaking News from the National Guard

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has slammed federal takeover as ‘unsettling and unprecedented’

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., this week

After President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration would take over Washington’s police department for at least a month, hundreds of members of the National Guard began to arrive in the capital.

ANALYSIS: Wall Street, his own cabinet and numerous civic guardrails stopped Trump from indulging in his own impulses in the first term. Now, Eric Garcia writes, he feels he can do whatever he wants

Data from the Metropolitan Police Department in DC shows violent crime rates have gone down signficantly since 2023

The Trump administration is considering plans for a "Reaction Force" of National Guard troops to deploy quickly to American cities with signs of civil unrest.

About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’

With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into Washington, D.C. to fight crime, President Donald Trump edged U.S. troops closer to the kind of military-civilian confrontations that can cross ethical and legal lines.

Muriel Bowser says president’s move to federalize city police force demonstrates why the District of Columbia needs statehood to secure its independence