Some National Guard members in Washington D.C., likely fewer than 50, had weapons as of Sunday night, a military official told CBS News.

As of Sunday night, National Guard troops operating in Washington, D.C., are now armed, according to a defense official. This will apply to the more than 2,200 guardsmen from D.C. and other states that are now serving in the mission in D.C.

Members of the National Guard deployed to D.C. will pick up trash and work on dozens of “beautification and restoration” projects, the military task force overseeing all troops in the District said Monday.

A man has been charged with felony assault for allegedly spitting on two South Carolina Army National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Washington, DC, as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-crime agenda in the nation’s capital.

National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., will now carry weapons for personal protection and are allowed to carry out law enforcement duties, defense officials said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public schools reopened Monday in the nation’s tense capital with parents on edge over the presence in their midst of thousands of National Guard troops — some now armed — and large scatterings of federal law enforcement officers carrying out President Donald Trump’s orders to make the District of Columbia a safer place.

Stephen Miller, the president’s deputy White House chief of staff and consigliere on immigration, said only elderly white people objected to the takeover when he, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited members of the National Guard at Union Station.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), the non-voting member representing the nation’s capital in Congress, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require National Guard troops to wear