Pentagon plans to keep National Guard in DC into 2029, 2 US officials say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

March 19, 2026, 9:06 PM


The Pentagon is planning to maintain the National Guard's federal mission in Washington, D.C., until Jan. 20, 2029, through the rest of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to two U.S. officials. The plan is in its final stages and just requires Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's final approval.

Both officials said they expect Hegseth to sign the plan, which was finalized late last year, as Trump has repeatedly characterized the Guard's mission in D.C. as an enormous success.

"There are no announcements to make at this time,” Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a statement to ABC News, adding that the Defense Department is "committed to supporting the President's mission to address the epidemic of crime in our Nation's capital."

Some 2,865 National Guard troops are currently deployed in D.C., according to National Guard data, all drawn from Republican-led states with the exception of local D.C. Guard units.

Read more: https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-plans-national-guard-dc-2029-2-us/story?id=131234530

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More Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

[jls4561]

1. Could someone please write a folk song that highlights how the brave reservists left home and family when the

squatter in the Oval called them to be a prop in the reality show that plays 24-7?

Oh, We deployed for love of country, and we bravely spread the mulch…

[2naSalit]

2. I'll bet...

Those guardsmen are thrilled.

[displacedvermoter]

3. Far worse places they could be at this point

I am guessing.

[Blues Heron]

4. 1,000,000/day to rake leaves and stand in the subway

[Mr. Sparkle]

5. The timing is interesting, they are staying in DC up until the next presidential inauguration

[mdbl]

6. That was my first thought

Are they the new Jan 6 insurrectionists?

[Mr. Sparkle]

8. That was my second thought

i hate to say it , but why send in a bunch of amateurs when you can have the professionals do it.

[oberle]

7. What in the hell are they doing?

I don't hear about them anymore. Although having quit WaPo, maybe they are doing something and I don't know about it.

[Bayard]

9. "The epidemic of crime in our Nation's capital."

Its apparently curbed by picking up trash, tending to landscaping and scrubbing graffiti.

Have all of these troops been federalized then?