Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, who has denied crime is out of control in her city, described the troop deployment as an "authoritarian push". Trump, a Republican, has also threatened similar deployments against New York and Chicago, two other Democratic-controlled cities.

The new picture of law enforcement in the nation’s capital began taking shape Tuesday as some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving.

Federal agents and troops are mobilized to Washington, D.C. after the president declared an emergency on crime. And Attorney General Pam Bondi sat down with the city's Mayor to lay out the plan. Natasha Korecki,