{"id":192408,"date":"2021-03-06T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=192408"},"modified":"2021-03-06T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T15:45:06","slug":"capitol-police-request-2k-national-guard-troops-for-an-extra-60-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-request-2k-national-guard-troops-for-an-extra-60-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Police request 2K National Guard troops for an extra 60 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fcapitol-police-request-2k-national-guard-troops-for-an-extra-60-days%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=192408&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 id=\"attachment_2382702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2382702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Guard walked near the Capitol, Thursday, March 4, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:35 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, March 6, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Department of Defense received a request from the Capitol Police to have more than 2,000 troops stay at their post in D.C. for an extra 60 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Capitol Police Chief Pittman writes to congressional leaders asking for their help in getting the proper authorization for a National Guard extension.<\/p>\n<p>Pittman seems to indicate that the Senate sergeant-at-arms has yet to sign off on the request. House SAA has approved. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SK72G6NHpY\">pic.twitter.com\/SK72G6NHpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewDesiderio\/status\/1367598425659867138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During a press conference on Friday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby confirmed an official request had been made by acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying before lawmakers, Pittman said there have been continued threats made against elected officials and that added security was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in receipt of a formal request from the Capitol Police for continued National Guard assistance at the Capitol complex,\u201d Kirby stated. \u201cThis request does seek an extension for a number of guardsmen over the next couple of months. We are evaluating the request right now as we do with all others with an eye towards properly balancing the need, balance the need with the resources available. I\u2019m not going to get ahead of that process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 5,200 guardsmen stationed at the Capitol were supposed to leave next week, but Pittman\u2019s request would require some of them stay through May.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/mcconnell-democrats-inherited-already-turning-tide\/\">McConnell: Democrats Inherited Already Turning Tide<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Guard walked near the Capitol, Thursday, March 4, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 7:35 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, March 6, 2021 The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274901,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192408","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\/192408","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=192408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}