Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday said President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington using the National Guard is “a recipe for chaos.” “Now they’re mobilizing the National Guard, they’re bringing the National Guard in from South Carolina,

Today a group of South Carolina Army National Guard soldiers left for the nation’s capital. Approximately 70 soldiers of around 200 ordered by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster were deployed from the National Guard Armory in Union to support a federal security mission in Washington D.

Governors from Ohio, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia agreed to send National Guardsmen to the nation's capital.