Three Republican-led states are deploying National Guard members to Washington to help the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department.

Republican-led states are sending National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. as part of President Trump's crackdown on crime, despite downward trends in the capital's crime rate. NBC News Legal Affairs Reporter Gary Grumbach has more details.

The National Guard presence in D.C. is set to increase in the coming days after the governors of some Republican states deployed troops to the capital.

The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio have said they're sending hundreds of their National Guard troops to join the military force already deployed in Washington, D.C. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane reports.

The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.

Republican-led states are sending National Guard troops to D.C. to support President Trump’s anti-crime efforts, with hundreds of soldiers from West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio being

President Donald Trump slammed Maryland Gov. Wes Moore from the Oval Office on Thursday. The governor responded in a social media video, as a clash continues about the use of the National Guard.

Federal troops are patrolling the National Mall and neighborhoods across Washington while President Donald Trump’s administration exerts extraordinary power over law enforcement in the nation’s