National Guard troops are told to prepare for possibility that 'IEDs will be used by heavily armed Capitol plotters' - as 20,000 are drafted in for Biden inauguration and many are seen sleeping with their rifles on Congress floor


1. The National Guard is being told to prepare for the possibility that those plotting attacks on the US Capitol during Joe Biden's inauguration will be using improvised explosive devices and heavily armed
2. A total of 20,000 National Guardsman have now been authorized to descend on Washington to help safeguard the capital ahead of Biden's inauguration
3. The troops have now been cleared to carry handguns and rifles after previously only been authorized to carry protective equipment
4. Hundreds of National Guard members were spotted throughout Wednesday cradling their rifles and riot gear as they slept on the stone floor of the Capitol building
5. Republican lawmakers Mike Waltz and Vicky Hartzler handed out boxes of pizza to those troops in the Capitol
6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed some of the troops outside the Capitol to thank them for their service just hours before the House of Representatives started debating impeaching President Trump for a second time
7. The troops, thousands of police officers and layers of 8-foot anti-climb steel fencing are among the reinforcements being used to fortify DC a week out from the inauguration
8. The Secret Service will take control of inauguration security preparations from today and road closures are now in effect across parts the downtown Washington DC area until after the inauguration
9. Security experts have said chatter among extremists and Trump supporters on social media about holding armed marches and threatening violence in DC and other cities has surged in recent days


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