The White House will send more troops to the border with Mexico

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an interview with NBC News that US President Donald Trump’s administration plans to send more troops to the border with Mexico in addition to the 1,500 that are already on the way.

“As you know, a lot of this requires funding from Congress, as the president has openly talked about. The president signed an executive order to make homeland security a key part of the mission of the Department of Defense, and you’re seeing those actions already underway,” she said.

Leavitt also said she was not aware of the U.S. president talking to or meeting with any of the Jan 6 rioters he pardoned.

She added that Trump is still set to visit California tomorrow to assess the damage from the wildfires, although firefighters and emergency officials are still trying to bring them under control, including the new ones that broke out yesterday.