Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Thursday at a Senate Homeland Security hearing said U.S. federal troops in Portland were 'abandoned due to the dangerous policies by local officials.'

He said federal officers in Portland have 'faced assaults from bricks, baseball bats, sledge hammers...IEDs and other violent weapons'.

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