The Trump administration is looking at plans to set up a 600-person National Guard “quick reaction force” to quickly deploy to U.S. cities to quell protests or other unrest, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Internal Pentagon documents reviewed by the Post lay out the parameters for a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” calling for hundreds of guard members outfitted with weapons and riot gear to be on constant standby and deployable in as little as one hour.

The proposal, if enacted, would be another expansion of President Trump’s use of U.S. troops on American soil. The commander in chief on Monday declared he was deploying 800 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to combat what he claimed was a scourge of violent crime and drug use, even as D.C. police data shows violent incidents in the city have fallen off sharply since 2023.

As part of that effort, guard members on Tuesday morning began reporting to the D.C. Armory.

The documents reported by the Post — compiled by National Guard........

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