House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (Getty Images)
This story was reported by Quinn Weimer, Emma Riley, and A. Kim.
(CNS News) – House Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), along with 41 other House members, sent a letter on Feb. 5 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urging her “to remove the barbed wire fencing surrounding the Capitol and send the National Guard troops home to their families.” To date, Pelosi has not responded to the congressmens’ letter.
“[W]e are concerned with recent reports that the fencing surrounding the Capitol may become permanent,” wrote Rep. Buddand his colleagues in the letter to Pelosi. “We are willing to have an honest debate about providing Capitol Hill Police with the resources they need to be better prepared without turning the Capitol into a permanent fortress."