War Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump asked him to send 500 additional troops to Washington, D.C., after a shooting left two National Guard members critically injured.
Hegseth said he will ask Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to approve the deployment.
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