All security for the House and Senate members resides with the Sargent-at-Arms (roughly 800-to-900). The Capital Police Force presently has around 2,000. Each has it’s agenda and processes.
Some would suggest that they should be one single force. Neither group are controlled by the President. Both are financed by the yearly finance bills that the House sponsors.
From what I read over the weekend....lot of negativity has been brewing (bad morale) within the Capital Police. Some of it is simply disgruntled individuals...some angry over pay situation. In the past, some have used the phrase ‘door-guards’ when discussing the force.
Here’s the thing over the National Guard though...neither the House Speaker or Senate Majority Leader have authority to call for the National Guard. The mayor of DC does not have authority. If DC was a state...then the ‘governor’ could call for their local National Guard to activate their local guard (note, it’s around 2,700 folks from DC area by itself).
I’ll take a guess that this is one of the ten reasons why DC for statehood starts up shortly, but adding that 2,700 National Guardsmen would make no real difference in a riot.
So I’ll make this prediction...there’s some major overhaul of the Capital Police and they double the number of members by spring of 2022.
The mayor can ask and I doubt she would be turned down.