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GOP lawmakers question National Guard deployment as March 4 uncertainty looms

By Abraham Mahshie
Published March 3, 2021 7:36pm ET
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GOP lawmakers question National Guard deployment as March 4 uncertainty looms
Police begin clearing angry protesters from the Capitol building in Washington by using tear gas on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Demonstrators responded by taunting and yelling at law enforcement before retreating from the toxic gas and the officers with riot shields. | (Zachary Halaschak/Washington Examiner)

Republican lawmakers continue to object to a National Guard deployment around Washington even as law enforcement officials vaguely say they have credible intelligence about an alleged plot to breach the Capitol on March 4.

A QAnon-backed conspiracy theory believes that former President Donald Trump will return to office on Thursday. March 4 was Inauguration Day for presidents until the 20th Amendment, ratified in 1933, changed the date to Jan. 20.

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