The deployment, dubbed “Make DC Safe and Beautiful,” quickly has expanded to include some 4,000 troops from states and territories across the country.

Washington residents and officials see President Donald Trump’s extended National Guard deployment as an attempt to restrict the heavily Democratic city’s autonomy.

Extending the deployment into 2029 will cost about $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate

Trump said in 2025 that the Guard would stay in the nation's capital until \