Army Secretary: Guardsmen may have 'training issues' if not reimbursed for Capitol deployment

National Guard officials may have to cut troops training beginning in July if Congress does not reimburse the force for its months-long deployment protecting the U.S. Capitol, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth warned on Tuesday.

“Without those resources, the Guard . . . will find themselves with training issues,” Wormuth told lawmakers at a Senate Appropriations subpanel hearing on Army funding.

Thousands of National Guardsmen from around the country deployed to Washington, D.C., for nearly five months to shore up security at the Capitol after the Jan. 6 attack on the building by supporters of former President Trump.