{"id":4210,"date":"2026-07-03T23:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:03:25","slug":"trumps-national-guard-deployment-in-washington-expands-ahead-of-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s National Guard deployment in Washington expands Ahead of holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON \u2014 Last August, President Trump ordered hundreds of soldiers and airmen from the National Guard to duty in the capital. He claimed he would \u201crescue\u201d the city from \u201ccrime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor,\u201d even though violent crime had fallen to a 30-year low.<\/span><\/p>\n

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They soon began appearing at landmarks on the National Mall, in other tourist areas and around some subway stations, mostly replanting grass, washing off graffiti and picking up bags of trash.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, nearly 5,000 Guard troops are in Washington — roughly equivalent to about eight Army battalions. They are still mostly in tourist areas and are expected to be on hand for Fourth of July celebrations, with temperatures forecast to reach around 100 degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Guard troop deployment now is about 30% more troops than Gen. Douglas MacArthur commanded in the city when he crushed the Bonus Army veterans protests on the National Mall in 1932, and more than triple the number of Guard troops who confronted the largest anti-Vietnam War protests in Washington during the May Day protests of 1971.<\/span><\/p>\n

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