{"id":1363068,"date":"2022-03-07T17:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T22:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363068"},"modified":"2022-03-07T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T22:08:42","slug":"defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-extends-national-guard-mobilization-for-trucker-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-extends-national-guard-mobilization-for-trucker-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Extends National Guard Mobilization for Trucker Convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefense-secretary-lloyd-austin-extends-national-guard-mobilization-for-trucker-convoy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363068&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Secretary-of-Defense-Lloyd-Austin-feb19-2021-pentagon-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday approved the extension of the mobilization of the National Guard in the nation\u2019s capital amid a trucker convoy circling the district, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Austin has approved requests from the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) and the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (DCHSEMA) to extend previously approved National Guard support in the District, including around the U.S. Capitol area, providing support at traffic control points for two additional days, through Wednesday, March 9,\u201d Kirby said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Austin on February 22 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/22\/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-approves-700-national-guard-troops-trucker-convoy\/\">approved a request<\/a> from USCP and DCHSEMA for the National Guard to provide support for them in advance of a trucker convoy that was expected to arrive to D.C. the first week of March and potentially coincide during the State of the Union address on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Austin approved up to 700 National Guard forces, from D.C., West Virginia, New Jersey, and Vermont, to assist through March 7.\u00a0The estimated cost of that support was $6.5 million, according to two sources.<\/p>\n<p>However, the trucker convoy, dubbed the \u201cPeople\u2019s Convoy,\u201d did not arrive to the D.C. region until Saturday, March 5. Participants in the convoy, consisting of more than 1,000 trucks and other vehicles, held a rally in Hagerstown, Maryland on Saturday, and on Sunday reportedly made several loops around D.C. The group apparently made another loop around D.C. on Monday. It is not clear how long they will stay.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>National Guard spokesman Maj. Aaron Thacker said in a statement to Breitbart News on Monday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>National Guard has approximately 700 Soldiers and Airmen on duty supporting the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and U.S. Capitol Police requests for assistance with traffic control in the area of the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall. Yesterday, the Department of Defense approved requests from the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency to extend the National Guard\u2019s mission by two days to the end of the day\u00a0Wednesday, March 9.\u00a0For the final two days, approximately 500 National Guard members will be on duty<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Convoy participants are protesting vaccine mandates and other coronavirus pandemic restrictions. The convoy was inspired by weeks-long trucker protests in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced on Twitter that he had rejected a request by the D.C. National Guard, sent to all states, for support, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/02\/ron-desantis-refuses-to-deploy-florida-national-guard-to-dc-for-trucker-convoy\/\">reported<\/a> by Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Breitbart News last week, DeSantis\u2019s Press Secretary Christina Pushaw said, \u201cWe don\u2019t think that\u2019s the right use of our National Guard troops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remember the last deployment to D.C. around this time [was] when they were forced to sleep in parking lots, they didn\u2019t have food, they were just dealing with very poor conditions, to just kind of have this fortress around the Capitol,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday approved the extension of the mobilization of the National Guard in the nation\u2019s capital amid a trucker convoy circling the district, Pentagon Press Secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}