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CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta shouted at a question at President Donald Trump Monday evening, demanding to know if the United States is “still a democracy” after air and ground troops from the District of Columbia National Guard were deployed around the nation’s capital.

Trump approved the activation of the full D.C. National Guard on Sunday afternoon to protect life and property, after a request from Bowser.

“It’s one of the tools available, whether the president decides to do that, that is his prerogative,” she said in response to questions about the president using the Insurrection Act.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has activated the National Guard in the Sunshine State following violent protests rocking the Tampa Bay area on Saturday night, as rioters torched, vandalized, and looted businesses and damaged police vehicles.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles late Saturday night, and Mayor Eric Garcetti imposed a citywide curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. as riots raged through West L.A. and elsewhere.

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti called on the state’s National Guard for help on Saturday evening in response to protests in the city — which have devolved into riots — over the death of George Floyd.

“The National Guard has been released in Minneapolis to do the job that the Democrat Mayor couldn’t do,” Trump wrote, referring to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

Atlanta’s mayor has announced a curfew will be in effect from 9 p.m. Saturday to sunrise Sunday following violence that erupted in the city during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) on Saturday announced that he will fully mobilize the state’s National Guard amid continued violent unrest in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd. 

“George Floyd will not have died in vain,” Trump wrote. “Respect his memory!!!”

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he is extending National Guard troops’ deployments in the fight against coronavirus until mid-August, which will allow them to qualify for certain benefits.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called in the National Guard on Thursday as looting broke out in St. Paul and a wounded Minneapolis braced for more violence after rioting over the death of a handcuffed black man in police custody reduced parts of one neighborhood to a smoking shambles.

A food distribution site at Wright State University’s Nutter Center served 1,400 families on Tuesday as millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet as result of the economic shutdowns across the country.

Pentagon officials are pushing back against criticism — mostly from Democrat lawmakers — that the department has not acted fast or done enough to protect troops from coronavirus despite relatively low hospitalizations.

“The National Guard are going to be deployed to pick them up across the state, and deploy them to places that we need them,” Cuomo said during a press conference on Friday.

The Pentagon on Monday announced the first service member to succumb to coronavirus — a member of the New Jersey Army National Guard.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a current Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard, called on President Trump to “call up more of the National Guard” to help combat coronavirus. Kinzinger said,

President Donald Trump has authorized Defense Secretary Mark Esper to order units and individual members in the National Guard and Reserves, as well as “certain Individual Ready Reserve members,” to active duty to augment forces in the coronavirus response, according to the chief Pentagon spokesperson.

“I want you to understand, this is not martial law,” FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor said.

National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Lengyel said recently he does not see any demand from states to have Guard members act as law enforcement.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Tuesday that the state is prepared for the possibility of declaring martial law in an effort to combat the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

The Pentagon will provide up to five million N-95 respirator masks and 2,000 specialized ventilators from its strategic reserves.

The nation could face a severe hospital bed shortage if it reaches the worst-case scenario with coronavirus. The Pentagon can help.

New York National Guard troops were deployed Tuesday to assemble a containment area as part of the state’s effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

My generation knows that leaving a single mother defenseless to protect herself and her children isn’t the solution. We know that banning standard capacity magazines won’t stop criminals from getting them. We know that banning firearms suppressors won’t stop the next crazy gunman. Heck, not a single one of Gov. Northam’s gun control schemes would have stopped the Virginia Beach gunman from doing what he did last summer. We know that gun control doesn’t work.

A report from WDBJ7 shows that more than 90 Second Amendment sanctuary declarations have been made by counties and municipalities in Virginia.

Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) suggests Gov. Ralph Northam (D) can activate the National Guard and use it to force Second Amendment sanctuary counties to honor gun control.

Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in several counties Monday morning after some regions experienced more than a foot of snow.

Trump campaign surrogate Kimberly Guilfoyle appeared at a Women for Trump event in Nevada on Thursday evening alongside special guest, former Ms. Nevada Katie Williams.

The Pentagon approved a request from DHS to send an additional 1,000 active duty and 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the border.

The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday a Defense Department inquiry into an incident in which two soldiers were detained by Mexican troops.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is shifting the California National Guard from border enforcement to cracking down on the illegal marijuana industry — even though he was an advocate for the legalization of the drug.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that he is looking to scale down the state’s National Guard presence at the U.S.-Mexico border, pulling nearly 400 troops from the border assisting President Donald Trump’s border enforcement efforts and assigning them to other duties.

Incoming California governor Gavin Newsom plans to reverse outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to send the California National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist President Donald Trump’s enforcement efforts.

Private First Class Edward Jair Acosta-Avila was arrested this month, charged with human trafficking.

A Utah Army National Guard major and the mayor of the town of North Ogden was killed on Saturday in Afghanistan in what officials are calling an “insider attack” in the capital city of Kabul.