Sen. Cotton: 'It's Time to Send Home the Troops'
By Susan Jones
| January 25, 2021 | 9:01am EST
National Guard troops carry riot shields near the US Capitol at the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - "We don't need to turn the people's House, the center of our republic, into an armed camp," Sen. Tom Cotton said on Sunday. He said it's time to send the National Guard troops home.
Press reports quote a National Guard spokesperson as saying that up to 7,000 National Guard troops could remain in Washington, D.C., through March 12, at the request of federal officials.