WASHINGTON — A week after President Donald Trump announced he would be sending federal agents and the National Guard to fight crime in the nation's capital, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is questioning how the crime crackdown is playing out in the streets .

"You know it doesn't make sense. The numbers on the ground in the District do not support a thousand people from other states coming to Washington, D.C.," Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters on Monday as she cut the ribbon on a new school development in Northwest. "The question is really not for us, it's for why the military would be deployed in an American city to police Americans."

The mayor's comments come at a time when the Trump administration is deploying more National Guard troops to the District that will more than double the nu

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