President Donald Trump ordered 800 National Guardsmen to deploy to Washington, D.C., on Monday. The move is the latest deployment of military personnel on U.S. soil during Trump’s second term, now in its seventh month.

The National Guard troops will “help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C.,” Trump announced at a news conference on Monday morning.

“And they are going to be allowed to do their job properly,” Trump said at a White House news conference.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who also attended Monday’s news conference, told reporters that the District of Columbia National Guard has been mobilized at the president’s direction.

“You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week,” Hegseth said. “At your direction as well, sir, the

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