National Guard troops that had been stationed in Washington, D.C., since the Capitol riot are heading back home this week following orders from several governors for their return.
The governors of New Hampshire, Florida, Texas and Montana issued announcements Thursday and Friday calling for the return of National Guard troops to their homes.
On Thursday the National Guard Bureau issued a press release saying it is working with states to return troops to their homes.
The National Guard Bureau estimates that it will take five to 10 days to get troops home.
Some 26,000 troops from 50 states and three territories provided support for the presidential inauguration and 10,600 will remain on duty, so officials are coordinating the return of 15,000 others to their homes.
“Some agencies are requesting continuity of operations, additional support and recuperation time for their forces to regroup. Approximately 7,000 National Guard personnel are anticipated to provide that assistance through the end of the month,” the bureau said.
President Joe Biden apologized to the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday after troops who were sent to Washington, D.C., to provide security for his inauguration were kicked out of the U.S. Capitol building and ordered to sleep in a parking garage.
A spokesperson for the National Guard told The New York Times early Friday the troops were removed at the request of U.S. Capitol Police as Congress returned to session.
Capitol Police disputed that claim, but later Friday the two agencies issued a joint press release saying they are “united in the common goal to protect the U.S. Capitol and the Congress during this time.”
“The USCP and the National Guard have coordinated their efforts to ensure that National Guardsmen and women are stationed throughout the Capitol Complex are in appropriate spaces within Congressional buildings, including the U.S. Capitol, where they may take on-duty breaks,” the release said. “Off-duty troops are being housed in hotel rooms or other comfortable accommodations.”
The release also said the Guard appreciates “the continuous support of Congressional members who expressed concern for our National Guard men and women.”
Elected officials from both parties — and active at the state and federal levels — expressed outrage over the troops being lodged in a parking garage.
“A situation like last night will never happen again,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York wrote on Twitter.
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The National Guard, hated by the liberal politicians, yet the politicians in Washington, have turned the Capitol into a police state, using the National Guard. Hypocrite communist politicians. Good for the Governors, removing their NG troops, back to their states.
It took only days for this moron in chief to show his support for our troops.
IMO EVERY governor should order their troops back home. NONE SHOULD BE allowed to stay in DC.
Good call to send troops back home. We don’t need Nation Guard troops in the District of Columbia — especially since the Democrat party has decided to abuse them so badly. Shame on the Democrats for relegating our troops to sleeping on the concrete in a parking garage. Biden *****!!!!
And just what states are the 10,600 remaining troops from,,,,,Democrat run? Hmmmm, by design no doubt. The party of Fear now runs the Capitol, fear is now all they have left to offer. Just look at those Biden Presidential dictations offered that they fear to get empowered by good old fashion Congressional approval, but have proven themselves too weak to do it the legal way. God help America, they are making it Obama weak and divided again. At least our Texan guardsmen will be coming home, needed again here when they COME FOR US. They already have come for our pipelines and border security.
The D.C. Democrats’ use of more than 25,000 national guard troops from all over the U.S. to protect Biden’s inauguration from unsubstantiated threats by unspecified White supremacy groups and/or Trump supporters was designed to set the stage for the new ruling party’s claim that political opponents, which are primarily White conservatives, pose a deadly threat to our democracy. This appalling misuse of military resources was an expensive farce designed to intimidate the political opposition and justify the left’s draconian plan to restrict the Constitutional rights of Trump supporters by making them the target of the cancel culture and victims of a domestic war on terror.