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Thousand More Pennsylvania National Guard Members Ordered To D.C. For Inauguration Day
An additional thousand Pennsylvania National Guard members are headed to Washington D.C on Inauguration Day.
The troops are set to join the combined 25,000 U.S. Secret Service, Capitol police, and D.C. police at the U.S Capitol for the swearing in of President-elect Joe Biden, Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday.
This addition will bring the total number of PNG members supporting operations in Washington, D.C., to approximately 2,000, Wolf said.
For Trump’s inauguration in 2016, there were only about 8,000 members of security, The Guardian reports.
Federal officials have yet to provide a reaso…
