Hundreds of National Guardsmen from three states are being activated to go to Washington, D.C. to aid the military mission in the nation’s capital.

Scores of demonstrators took to the streets of Washington on an oppressively hot and humid Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops.

Members of federal law enforcement walk past a homeless woman outside of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., August 14, 2025.