Three Republican-led US states will send members of their National Guard forces to Washington, DC to bolster the roughly 800 troops President Donald Trump has already deployed to the city.

The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio announced Saturday they will send National Guard troops to Washington, DC, in an escalation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to federally take over law enforcement in the city.

The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.

The Trump administration plans to expand the National Guard’s presence in Washington in the coming days, with the governors of Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina authorizing the deployment of their states’ National Guard.

The trial over President Trump's deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer reached its third and final day Wednesday.

A federal judge in San Francisco is weighing whether the Trump administration violated federal law by sending National Guard troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids in Southern California.

The police chief called Bondi's order a threat to law and order in D.C. As President Donald Trump heads to Alaska for his high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the president's crime-reduction push in Washington,