A White House spokesperson told CBS News that while deployed National Guard members "may be armed," they will not make arrests.

The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio announced Saturday they will send National Guard troops to Washington, DC, in an escalation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to federally take over law enforcement in the city.

Protesters marched to the White House on Saturday as D.C. Metropolitan Police officers and National Park Service police looked on from a distance.

Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up 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 on the streets around the clock.

President Donald Trump has doubled down on his campaign against crime in Washington, D.C., with another Truth Social post in which he boldly proclaimed: “The White House is in charge.” The post, published on Wednesday night,

Is Trump’s deputy chief of staff accusing police officers of lying, or does he think Kash Patel’s FBI is peddling false information about crime data?

Days after Donald Trump announced that he was temporarily seizing control D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, residents have reported getting warnings and seeing homeless camps removed with bulldozers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi is effectively in charge of the police department in Washington, D.C. — so says the White House. But the city’s police force already has a Pam at the helm — Chief Pamela Smith — and she says she only reports to the mayor.