Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Trump's law enforcement crackdown will be armed, the Pentagon said.

The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump's crackdown will be armed

Protesters heckled Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as they walked through Union Station in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday (August 20) to meet National Guard troops at the station.

Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited Washington, D.C.'s Union Station to spend time with National Guard troops who were called in to assist D.C. police in a federal crime crackdown.

Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were booed and heckled loudly during an afternoon trip to the Union Station to meet with National Guard troops at Shake Shack in Washington,