National Guard, DC and West Virginia troops
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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.
West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio are sending several hundred National Guard troops to Washington to bolster the federal deployment that President Donald Trump has ordered in his effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.
South Carolina and Ohio say they will send a combined 350 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., supplementing a surge of troops from Republican-led states.