The White House now says more arrests are being made and homeless people are being forced to remove their tents from public spaces as troops deploy in response to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented takeover over the capital city’s

WASHINGTON — Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence after the White House said the number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital would ramp up and federal officers would be the streets around the clock.

The White House says the number of National Guard troops in Washington will ramp up and federal officers will be on the streets of the nation’s capital around the clock.

President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics was hanging around the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but the White House swears he’s not an insurrectionist. Earlier this week, the president announced that he was nominating Heritage Foundation economist and Project 2025 architect E.