While details of the plan were unclear, the administration is preparing to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, a U.S. official told Reuters.

Trump said at a press conference that he would take control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the D.C. National Guard in an effort to supposedly “rescue our nation’s capital from crime" by "removing homeless encampments from all over our parks."

The move raises fundamental questions about how the federal government will interact with its state and local counterparts. Mayor Muriel Bowser questioned