National Guard troops at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. Senior FBI and Secret Service officials also briefed Biden and some of his national security aides Wednesday, the transition team said. Fearing fresh rounds of violence this weekend, more governors on Wednesday announced that they were calling up National Guard troops to help maintain security. Officials at the Pentagon were racing to evaluate a growing list of requests for National Guard assistance. The guardsmen were resting between shifts, D.C. Guard officials said in a statement, stressing that they were not sleeping on the floor because of a lack of sleeping arrangements.
