The Trump administration has ordered 500 more National Guard members to Washington following the shooting of Guard troops, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.

Hegseth said President Donald Trump asked him to send the Guard members.

There are currently 2,188 troops assigned to the joint task force operating in the city, according to the government’s latest update.

Hegseth was visiting the Dominican Republic. The two National Guard soldiers were critically wounded near the White House.

Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.

FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said the Guard members were hospitalized in critical condition. Bows

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