President Joe Biden, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer have National Guard Sleeping Cold in Parking Garages.

In the dead of winter, President Joe Biden, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer have our brave men and women sleeping in parking garages. National Guard troops brought in to protect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration were ordered to sleep in an unheated garage hours after being booted from the Capitol on Thursday, prompting an uproar among lawmakers who scrambled to move them back.

On Friday, thousands of National Guardsmen have now been allowed to return to the US Capitol after images of them sleeping outside and in a nearby parking garage overnight sparked outrage 24 hours after the inauguration.

Capitol Police apologized late on Thursday after it emerged they had asked the troops brought in to protect Washington DC to leave the Capitol building and take their rest breaks in a nearby designated parking lot instead.

Photos showed up to 5,000 Guardsmen sleeping on the floor of the packed Thurgood Marshall Building parking lot and in a park outside as temperatures hit a low of 40 degrees.

The scenes sparked immediate outrage among lawmakers as some Guardsmen revealed they felt 'incredibly betrayed' given they had just spent more than a week helping to fortify and protect the capital, from no credible threat at all. 

On Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire demanded that state’s troops be sent home.

'I've ordered the immediate return of all New Hampshire National Guard from Washington DC. They did an outstanding job serving our nation's capital in a time of strife and should be graciously praised, not subject to substandard conditions,' New Hampshire Gov Chris Sununu tweeted on Friday morning.