The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the mission for which National Guard troops were deployed will continue until Jan. 20, 2029, or until the president terminates it. The extension would allow National Guard members to remain in Washington until the next president is inaugurated, unless Trump ends the deployment early. As Timothy Fudd details below for The Epoch Times, Trump first deployed the National Guard to Washington in August 2025. Air Force Gen. Steven Nordhaus, chief of the National Guard Bureau, also credited National Guard members for saving more than 235 lives, providing more than 530 medical assists, and restoring children to their families 27 times. Following Trump’s order for National Guard members to support law enforcement operations in Washington, two National Guard members were shot in the city last fall.