Trump later announced that he will nominate conservative economist E.J. Antoni to be the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, after firing the previous agency head.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city's police department, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation's capital.

President Trump on Monday announced plans to deploy some 800 members of the Washington, D.C., National Guard to the nation’s capital as part of his administration’s effort to crack down on street crime in the city.