(The Hill) -- National Guard troops began arriving in Washington on Tuesday morning, a day after President Donald Trump deployed some 800 members to the nation’s capital to combat what he called out-of-control violent crime.

The troops were seen arriving at the D.C. Armory, the National Guard’s headquarters in the city, and are expected to be on the ground later in the day, a White House official told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network.

Trump during a lengthy press conference Monday announced the deployment as well as a Justice Department takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). He claimed the city was in the midst of a crime emergency, even as violent crime in the city has fallen sharply following a post-COVID-19 pandemic spike in 2023.

“I’m deploying the National Guard

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