House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said thousands of National Guard troops at the U.S. Capitol may remain “as long as they are needed” after a report saying the Capitol Police requested the Guard stay in place for two more months. “We have to have what we need when we need it, and in the numbers that we need,” the California Democrat said in a news conference on Thursday. She then deferred to the Capitol Police leadership, saying “that’s a security decision,” not her’s. “This issue of the National Guard is one that will be made by the Capitol Police, and the Police Board and the rest,” she added. “But I’m not in a position to respond to that [question]. But we should have them here as long as they are needed.” Thousands of National Guard members remain stationed at the Capitol. They were deployed after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, …