President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy approximately 800 National Guard troops to help quell violence in Washington is the second time this summer he has decided to activate the guard with little local support.

Between 100 and 200 National Guard members will be helping local law enforcement at a given time, an Army spokesperson said, noting that their “duties will include an array of tasks from administrative, logistics, and physical presence in support of law enforcement.”

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seemingly suggested that while that is their primary role, they could have a more active role than that in making arrests.

“They’re not going to be involved in law enforcement functions,” Hegseth said Monday night on Fox News of the troops, adding that, “There is no rogue law enforcement going on from the National Guard, but there is also the application of common sense. We’re not going to have National Guard sitting there like this, seeing a crime committed, and not do something about it.”

“I will have their back to ensure they can take the necessary action to protect citizens of D.C. and to protect themselves,” the secretary added.

Trump can deploy the District of Columbia National Guard without the consent of local officials because it is a federal district. Governors are in charge of their states’ National Guards, though the president has the authority to federalize and then deploy those troops. Because the district is not a state and does not have a governor, the president is the head of its National Guard.

The president also issued an order to take federal control of the Metropolitan Police Department for 30 days.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said the administration’s decision is “unsettling and unprecedented,” though she acknowledged the president’s authority through the 1973 Home Rule Act is “pretty broad.”

There are similarities to Trump’s decision in June to deploy about 4,000 California National Guard troops and about 700 Marines to Los Angeles, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and LA Mayor Karen Bass’s fervent opposition, to help quell violence related to protests of the administration’s aggressive deportation efforts.

That mission, the Defense Department comptroller said in June, was expected to cost roughly $134 million.

“I think we’re entering another phase, especially under President Trump, with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and Reserves become a critical component of how we secure that homeland,” Hegseth said during a congressional hearing in July. “The National Guard is a huge component of how we see the future.”

The administration is reportedly considering the possibility of establishing a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” which would be made up of hundreds of National Guard troops that would be tasked with being rapidly deployed on a moment’s notice, possibly to a different state, according to the Washington Post.

The purported plan calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so the first round of immediate deployments can happen in as little as one hour. They would be split into two groups, one based in Alabama and the other in Arizona, with the Mississippi River separating their respective purviews.

“The Department of Defense is a planning organization and routinely reviews how the department would respond to a variety of contingencies across the globe,” a defense official told the Washington Examiner. “We will not discuss these plans through leaked documents, pre-decisional or otherwise.”

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While the attention has been in Washington with the president’s announcement, a three-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer began on Monday that will determine whether the administration violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military from civil law enforcement, when it deployed the National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles.

Breyer initially sided with Newsom in June, ordering the president to return power of the California National Guard back to the governor, while a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the move, claiming that the president had the right to do so. The appellate court did not rule whether Trump’s order violated the Posse Comitatus Act.