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Bowser calls Trump’s takeover of D.C. police department ‘unsettling and unprecedented’
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August 11, 2025 at 3:47 p.m. EDT24 min ago
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President Donald Trump announced on August 11 that he would deploy the National Guard to Washington, D.C. and federalize the Metropolitan Police Department. (Video: Reuters)
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D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday called President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police department “unsettling and unprecedented" and said that the city’s police chief remains in charge of the District’s police force. Bowser said city officials would “continue to operate our government in a way that makes you proud.” Earlier, Trump announced the takeover as well as plans to deploy the D.C. National Guard to fight crime, saying the nation’s capital was suffering from “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) called the takeover of the police department “unlawful” and said the city is exploring options to respond.
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia on Monday called the federal takeover of D.C. police a “waste of taxpayer dollars.” Crime in D.C. is “at a 30-year low,” Kaine said in a statement. He called the takeover “an unnecessary escalation clearly designed to distract Americans from issues like rising prices and incompetence from the Trump Administration.”
If the president “really cared about safety in D.C.,” Kaine wrote, “he would have immediately deployed the National Guard on January 6, 2021, and wouldn’t have pardoned hundreds of rioters who broke into the Capitol that day, including individuals convicted of assaulting police officers.”
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D.C. mayor calls takeover ‘unsettling and unprecedented’
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Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) speaks during a news conference on President Donald Trump's plan to place Washington police under federal control on Monday. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) called President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police department “unsettling and unprecedented,” her first public statement since Trump announced the move, along with a deployment of National Guard troops, earlier Monday.
“I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised,” Bowser said. “I can say to D.C. residents that we will continue to operate our government in a way that makes you proud.”
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says that the city has asked for all law enforcement officers acting in Washington to wear identifying clothing so that residents don’t feel any confusion.
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Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith speaks during a news conference on Monday, with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, on President Trump's plan to place the police under federal control and deploy National guard troops. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said at the news conference Monday that the department’s “relationship with our federal partners is not new.”
“We do this on a daily basis,” Smith said.
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A bus is moved inside the perimeter of the Joint Force Headquarters of the D.C. National Guard on Monday. (Craig Hudson/For the Washington Post)
Army spokesman Col. Dave Butler said National Guard troops should be in position in D.C. later this week after getting their activation orders and equipment. Since most live locally, they will serve in shifts of 200 soldiers to provide round-the-clock presence, he said. For now, troops will focus on providing logistical and administrative support to free up police officers to enforce the law, Butler said. It’s the same type of backup role they’ve been providing at the border. In some cases in D.C. the troops will be stationed at intersections to deter crime, Butler said.
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s nonvoting member of Congress, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) vowed to reintroduce legislation that would give D.C. power over its National Guard and police.
The Democrats, longtime champions of giving the city more autonomy, said in a joint statement they would push the legislation when Congress reconvenes in September and called President Donald Trump a “dictator.”
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Ankit Jain, the shadow senator for the District of Columbia, said President Donald Trump’s actions Monday further underscore the need for D.C. statehood.
“The only reason that this is happening is because D.C. is not a state,” Jain said in an interview. “Statehood is not just about abstract ideas of democracy and representation. It has real-world consequences.”
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D.C. council says Trump’s actions are unwanted overreach
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Lawmakers on the D.C. Council said in a joint statement Monday afternoon that President Donald Trump’s actions were an intrusion on local authority and an unwarranted overreach.
“Our local police department is the best in the country, and it is our police officers who should be leading the efforts to keep our communities safe — not the National Guard,” the lawmakers said.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton calls Trump move a ‘historic assault’ on D.C. home rule
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton on Capitol Hill in 2021. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
House Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who represents Washington in Congress but is not allowed to vote, on Monday blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to place D.C. police under federal control.
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Md. Gov. Wes Moore: ‘Deeply dangerous’ for National Guard to police D.C.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) speaks to supporters in Baltimore on June 15. (Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post)
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) called President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to police D.C. a “deeply dangerous” move that “lacks seriousness.”
“These actions by the president lack both data and a battle plan,” said Moore, whose state borders D.C. and who is widely considered a potential 2028 presidential contender.
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D.C. Police Union supports Trump’s move but says it should be temporary
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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday. (Eric Lee/For The Washington Post)
The D.C. Police Union supports President Donald Trump’s move to assume control of the D.C. police, union chairman Gregg Pemberton said in a statement Monday. However, he emphasized that the federal intervention should be temporary.
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Virginia's Youngkin praises Trump takeover
RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) thanked President Donald Trump for his takeover of D.C. police, posting on his personal X account: “It is a bad day for criminals in Washington, D.C.”
Youngkin added that Terry Cole, who will be the interim head of the D.C. police force, “knows ... that when we back the blue ... we make our streets safer!” Cole, the former Virginia secretary of public safety, was sworn in as the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in July.
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said President Donald Trump’s federalization of the D.C. police and his activation of the National Guard is “exactly why we’ve fought for DC statehood & to give DC control of its National Guard.”
“Trump’s raw authoritarian power grab in DC is part of a growing national crisis,” Van Hollen said in an X post. “He’s playing dictator in our nation’s capital as a dress rehearsal as he pushes democracy to the brink.”
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Trump’s decision puts him in charge of D.C. National Guard troops
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The Joint Force Headquarters of the D.C. National Guard on Monday. (Craig Hudson/For the Washington Post)
President Donald Trump’s decision to use Title 32 to activate D.C. National Guard forces will allow him to use them to conduct law enforcement while they are under his direct control, national security legal experts said.
Typically troops activated by the president are under federal orders, known as Title 10. But that federal control forbids them from conducting law enforcement on U.S. soil under the Posse Comitatus Act.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) expressed support for President Donald Trump’s move to put D.C. police under federal control, posting on X that “President Trump is RIGHT. We can’t allow crime to destroy our Nation’s Capital.”
“House Republicans support this effort to CLEAN UP Washington, END the crime wave, and RESTORE the beauty of the greatest capital in the world,” Johnson wrote.
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Members of the Metropolitan Police Department stand by, as people rally against the Trump administration's federal takeover of the District of Columbia, outside of the AFL-CIO in Washington on Monday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin in a statement called President Donald Trump’s federalization of the D.C. police and activation of the D.C. National Guard a “gross” abuse of power. Trump, Martin said, is “ripping National Guard members away from their jobs and families to act as political pawns.”
“Trump’s continued misuse of the National Guard is nothing more than that of a feeble, weak old man desperate to show a sense of strength as he runs the country into the ground, protects sex traffickers, and destroys the American economy,” Martin said.
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Mariana Alfaro
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said on X that he supports President Donald Trump’s push to activate the National Guard in Washington and federalize the city’s police department. Despite crime rates dropping in D.C., Graham said it is “embarrassing” to the country that Washington “has off the chart rates of violent crime.”
“Mr. President: Do what you must to make the District of Columbia safe again,” Graham said.
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Democratic mayors group slams Trump move to federalize D.C. police
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President Donald Trump, flanked by members of his Cabinet, speaks at the White House on Monday. (Eric Lee/For The Washington Post)
The Democratic Mayors Association on Monday denounced President Donald Trump’s rare move to place D.C. police under federal control and deploy the D.C. National Guard as part of his larger crackdown on crime.
“Let’s be clear: Crime is down in most major cities — including Washington, DC — in spite of Donald Trump, not because of him. While there is still more work to be done, Mayors need a federal partner who works with them, not against them,” a statement from the group reads.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California), who was House speaker when Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, noted on X that President Donald Trump, at that time, delayed deploying the National Guard as the Capitol was under siege. Now that Trump is activating the Guard to respond to crime in D.C., Pelosi said he’s doing so “to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education and immigration — just to name a few blunders.”
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Photos: Trump announces National Guard deployment
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A bus is moved inside the perimeter of the Joint Force Headquarters of the D.C. National Guard on Monday. (Craig Hudson/For the Washington Post)
President Donald Trump announced that National Guard troops would be deployed to the streets of Washington on Monday. Here are some scenes.
Activists briefly clash as one group attempts to recruit attendees to march on Monday in Washington. (Alex Kent/For the Washington Post)
People rally against the Trump Administration's federal takeover of D.C. outside of the AFL-CIO on Monday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Free DC, a local advocacy group, rallies near the White House on Monday. (Alex Kent/For the Washington Post)
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Oversight Chair Comer praises Trump’s effort to take over D.C. police
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) applauded President Donald Trump’s effort to control the capital’s law enforcement.
“President Trump is rightly using executive power to take bold and necessary action to crack down on crime and restore law and order in Washington, D.C.,” Comer said in a statement Monday. “For years, the D.C. Council’s radical, soft-on-crime agenda has emboldened criminals and put public safety at risk in our nation’s capital.”
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About 800 troops will be deployed in response to President Donald Trump’s orders, all of whom will be pulled from the D.C. National Guard, an Army official told The Washington Post.
They will be deployed under Title 32 orders, which, if D.C. were a state, would put them under the control of a governor.
The troops will be armed and have the ability to conduct arrests if needed, the official said.
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Leader Jeffries tells Trump to ‘get lost’ for intervening in D.C.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) appears at as weekly news conference inside the Capitol building in Washington. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)
Congressional Democrats are criticizing President Donald Trump for federalizing local police and deploying the D.C. National Guard, which they consider an encroachment on Washington’s autonomy by the federal government.
“Violent crime in Washington, D.C. is at a thirty-year low. Donald Trump has no basis to take over the local police department. And zero credibility on the issue of law and order. Get lost,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) posted on X.
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Responding to President Donald Trump’s plan to put D.C. police under federal control, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) called the move “unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.”
“There is no crime emergency in the District of Columbia,” Schwalb said. “We are considering all of our options and will do what’s necessary to protect the rights and safety of District residents.”
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Mariana Alfaro
In a video shared on X, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) said President Donald Trump’s push to take over D.C. police is not about the “safety of the people of Washington D.C.” but rather it is about “a president who’s desperate to distract the conversation in this country away from what he’s doing” to profit off his presidency.
Murphy also said Trump is seeking to distract from questions about the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, as well as a Republican push to cut programs such as Medicaid.
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D.C. carjackings down 37%, but remain above pre-pandemic totals
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John Harden
Carjackings are down 37 percent in D.C. compared with this time last year, according to D.C. police data, though they are still higher compared with rates in years just before the pandemic.
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12:11 p.m. EDT
Trump must notify Hill to extend federal control over police
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President Donald Trump may federalize the D.C. police for 48 hours in the event of an emergency and can extend that period up to 30 days if he notifies the top lawmakers overseeing the Capital in Congress in writing explaining the reason for the extension, according to the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973.
The emergency expires after 30 days however, unless both houses of Congress pass into law an extension, the law says.
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President Donald Trump at Monday's news conference. (Eric Lee/For The Washington Post)
President Donald Trump closed the news conference by saying that his actions to address crime in Washington will be “a model” for other cities.
“It’s going to be a model. And then we’ll look at other cities also. But other cities are studying what we’re doing,” Trump said. “We’re going to have a safe, beautiful capital, and it’s going to happen very quickly.”
12:03 p.m. EDT
Trump previews Putin meeting and says he will speak to Zelensky
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Dylan Wells
Speaking to reporters at his news conference on Washington crime, President Donald Trump said he thinks it is “very respectful” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “coming to our country as opposed to us going to his country or even a third, third party place.” Trump added that he anticipates “constructive conversations” with other European leaders following their Friday meeting in Alaska.
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11:52 a.m. EDT
D.C. residents took Trump’s threats to take over city seriously
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Scott Clement
President Donald Trump’s takeover of the District’s police validates the fears of most city residents, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll taken this spring. The survey found 77 percent of D.C. residents were “extremely” or “very” concerned about Trump’s threats to take over the D.C. government. Asked about actions the Trump administration was taking in general, a 72 percent majority said they felt “angry,” and 64 percent felt “scared.”
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11:50 a.m. EDT
Trump suggests that National Guard could be deployed in Chicago
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Katie Tarrant
President Donald Trump suggested the National Guard could be deployed to cities such as Chicago when asked by a reporter if he might expand federal action in Washington to other cities.
“If we didn’t go to L.A. three months ago, L.A. would be burning like the part that didn’t burn,” Trump said, referencing the deployment of Guard troops to assist policing of protests and immigration raids earlier this year.
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11:42 a.m. EDT
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Brianna Tucker
White House staff secretary Will Scharf said that President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday to address crime in Washington.
The first executive action invokes a section under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the D.C. police department under direct federal control.
The second executive action was a presidential memorandum allowing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to deploy the D.C. National Guard in Washington and to work with state governors to utilize their National Guard units.
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Asked by a reporter about the administration potentially reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, President Donald Trump said, “We’re looking at reclassification, and we’ll make a determination over the next, I would say over the next few weeks.”
During the campaign, Trump expressed support for loosening federal restrictions on the drug and said he would vote “yes” on a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in Florida.
11:34 a.m. EDT
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Erin Cox
President Donald Trump talked about his hope to clean Washington’s sidewalks and said it would send a message to the rest of the world. He made a comparison to a restaurant’s dirty front door that suggested a dirty kitchen inside.
“If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty, and they don’t respect us,” Trump said at his news conference
11:29 a.m. EDT
‘Protect home rule’: Protesters rally outside White House
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‘Protect home rule’: Rally held outside White House
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Protesters rallied outside the White House on Aug. 11 as President Trump announced he would deploy the D.C. National Guard and federalize the city’s police. (Video: Reuters)
Several hundred people gathered downtown in front of Lafayette Square, blocks from the White House, to protest President Donald Trump’s takeover of the city’s police force.
“We will not stand here and allow authoritarianism in Washington, D.C.,” said Nee Nee Taylor, a co-founder of Free DC, which organized the rally and was formed to defend the District’s home rule. “We are going to be here and we’re not backing down.”
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11:27 a.m. EDT
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Erin Cox
President Donald Trump said that 800 National Guard members have been activated, and there will be “much more if necessary, much more.”
Speaking at a White House news conference, he repeated a debunked claim that he once offered 10,000 troops to the city to help stop Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Monday. (Eric Lee/For The Washington Post)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., vowed to change laws to better punish offenders.
“We see you, we’re watching you, and we’re going to change the law to catch you,” Pirro said.
She lamented that “the laws are weak” and added that “we need to go after the D.C. Council and their absurd laws.”
11:24 a.m. EDT
Trump pledges to remove homeless encampments
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Katie Tarrant
A homeless encampment is seen in the early morning hours on in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Craig Hudson/For the Washington Post)
President Donald Trump said D.C. police and federal authorities, supported by the National Guard, will be removing homeless encampments from underpasses and public spaces all over Washington.
“We’re going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can’t walk on,” Trump said.
“They’ll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see,” he added.
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11:20 a.m. EDT
Homicide rates are falling in D.C.
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John Harden
While homicides rose post-pandemic — as they did in most of the U.S. — D.C.'s homicide rate has been dropping in the past few years. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, homicides in D.C. are down 32 percent year-to-date, following a 31 percent decrease in 2024 compared to 2023.
11:13 a.m. EDT
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum briefly spoke on the use of U.S. Park Police in enforcement efforts, adding they will now be allowed to “enforce the law” among national parks and monuments.
“They’ve been doing a fantastic job, but they are so pleased, the rank and file that President Trump is now allowing them to enforce the law,” said Burgum, who joined President Donald Trump at his news conference.
11:12 a.m. EDT
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Dylan Wells
“Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi, who added that “D.C. should be a place where everyone can come and feel safe.”
Bondi joined President Donald Trump at a news conference where he said she would be overseeing the D.C. police.
Referencing the various other members of the administration at the briefing, Bondi said: “Do not underestimate one person in this room. We’re going to make D.C. beautiful. We’re going to make D.C. safe again.”
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during Monday's news conference. (Eric Lee/For The Washington Post)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the D.C. National Guard has been activated and will be supervised by Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll.
“You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week,” Hegseth said at a news conference with President Donald Trump, adding that other “specialized” National Guard units may be deployed into Washington.
11:05 a.m. EDT
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Erin Cox
President Donald Trump said Monday that he would deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and put the local police under federal control.
“You’ll have more police, and you’ll be so happy because you’ll be safe when you walk down the street, you’re going to see police, or you’re going to see FBI agent,” Trump said at his news conference.
11:04 a.m. EDT
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Brianna Tucker
President Donald Trump said it is “embarrassing” to be taking federal action to address crime in Washington with an upcoming visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“This is an emergency. This is a tragic emergency. And it’s embarrassing for me to be up here. You know, I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday,” Trump said.
Trump’s meeting with Putin will be in Alaska.
“I don’t like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was, with graffiti all over the walls,” Trump added.
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Dylan Wells
President Donald Trump announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi “is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of this moment.”
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President Trump was joined by administration officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi at a news conference on Monday. (Yuri Gripas/Pool/EPA/Shutterstock)
Under the Home Rule Act, President Donald Trump can assume control of D.C. police for 48 hours if he “determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes.”
The takeover may be extended with notification of the members of Congress who oversee D.C. affairs. Any request of over 30 days must be passed into law.
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Erin Cox
President Donald Trump criticized Democratic policies as contributing to crime, and he blamed “radical left” city leaders for eliminating a cash bail system.
“This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city’s local leadership,” Trump said at Monday’s news conference.
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Erin Cox
President Donald Trump described Washington as “complete and total lawlessness.” “We’re getting rid of the slums,” he said, where he suggested violent criminals live in the city, without offering explanation on neighborhoods he considered slums.
10:55 a.m. EDT
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Dylan Wells
Discussing crime in D.C., President Donald Trump mentioned Edward Coristine, the former DOGE staffer who was injured in an attempted carjacking last week.
Trump said that Coristine, also known by the nickname “Big Balls,” was “savagely beaten by a band of roving thugs” and “left dripping in blood.”
“He thought he was dead with a broken nose and concussion. Can’t believe that he’s alive. He can’t believe it,” Trump said.
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President Trump compared D.C.’s homicide rate to other international cities and asked reporters in the room: “Do you want to live in places like that? I don’t think so, I don’t think so.”
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President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. (Staff/AFP/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump said in a news conference Monday that he is putting the District of Columbia’s police force under federal control “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” He continued, “This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back.” He said he would also deploy the National Guard to fight crime.
10:30 a.m. EDT
ICE and CBP officers deployed to fight crime in D.C.
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Katie Tarrant
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem posted on Truth Social on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs & Border Protection enforcement officers have been deployed in D.C. to “help clean up the streets of our nation’s capital.”
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10:26 a.m. EDT
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White House staff hand out printouts of President Trump's Truth Social post about crime in Washington to the press on Monday. (Yuri Gripas/Pool/EPA/Shutterstock)
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s news conference, the White House distributed a printout of his Truth Social post saying that D.C. will be “liberated” Monday. The printout included photos of people described as “criminals removed from the DC streets this weekend,” with descriptions of the reasons for their arrests.
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Newsom warns Trump to pull back on his redistricting plans
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) speaks at a news conference in Sacramento last week. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him to tell red states like Texas to abandon their “unprecedented, mid-decade hyper-partisan gerrymander to rug the upcoming midterm elections” and warning that his state will move ahead with its own plan to counter those moves.
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Australia, a U.S. ally, to recognize Palestinian statehood
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a news conference Monday in Canberra, Australia. (Hilary Wardhaugh/AFP/Getty Images)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Monday that Australia will recognize Palestinian statehood in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza — a stance from another U.S. ally at odds with that of President Donald Trump.
“A two-state solution is humanity’s best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,” Albanese said at a news conference in Canberra.
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9:32 a.m. EDT
New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him
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President Donald Trump appears at the White House in Washington on Friday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
President Donald Trump and the new AI search tool on his social media network, Truth Social, don’t exactly see eye to eye.
Truth Search AI contradicts the president by saying that tariffs are a tax on Americans, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, and his family’s cryptocurrency investments pose a potential conflict of interest. Asked about Jan. 6, 2021, it said the “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol was violent and linked to Trump’s “baseless claims of widespread election fraud.”
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Analysis: He was the first to tell Biden to step down. Now, will he?
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) at a news conference outside the Capitol last year. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) was the first Democrat in Congress to call on President Joe Biden to step down from the 2024 presidential race. It opened the door for other Democratic lawmakers to urge the president to pass the torch to a younger generation.
The 78-year-old Austinite now faces calls from some Democrats to do the same.
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President Donald Trump is continuing to tease actions he plans to announce regarding crime in Washington, declaring Monday morning in a Truth Social post that the nation’s capital will be “liberated today.”
“Washington, D.C. will be LIBERATED today! Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum will DISAPPEAR. I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN! The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER! I quickly fixed the Border (ZERO ILLEGALS in last 3 months!), D.C. is next!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT,” he wrote.
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Trump is rushing to build his ballroom. A review process could take years.
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President Donald Trump responds to reporters as he walks on the roof of the White House last week. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Shutterstock)
President Donald Trump is rushing to break ground next month on a giant White House ballroom, but has not yet submitted the project for a review that experts said is required by law and often takes years to complete.
A security fence and a tennis pavilion — neither of which involved the White House itself — each took at least two years to move through the National Capital Planning Commission, which vets construction of and renovation to the region’s federal buildings.
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Michael Birnbaum, Kelly Kasulis Cho and Perry Stein
President Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about crime in Washington and the city’s homeless population, but he appears to have been spurred to action in recent days by an assault on a former U.S. DOGE Service staffer, who was injured in an alleged carjacking. Soon after the attack, D.C. police arrested a 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland and charged them with unarmed carjacking of Edward Coristine.
Trump last week posted an apparent image of Coristine smeared in blood, warning that “if D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City.”
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Trump readies federal moves on D.C. crime, may deploy National Guard
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Michael Birnbaum, Kelly Kasulis Cho and Perry Stein
FBI and Border Patrol officers arrest a man along the U Street corridor during a federal law enforcement deployment to the nation's capital on Sunday. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump planned Monday to flex his significant law enforcement power over Washington, declaring that he would clear the city of homeless people and crack down on crime. He may call up the National Guard, according to one official familiar with the matter.
Trump will announce additional federal moves at a White House news conference at 10 a.m., he said on social media.
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Perry Stein, Olivia George, Ellen Nakashima and Dan Lamothe
Because D.C. is not a state, the federal government has unique authority to exert control over city affairs — even amid objections from the residents and locally elected government. The Home Rule Act of 1973 gave D.C. residents the ability to elect their own mayor and council members. A federal takeover of the D.C. police force would be an extraordinary assertion of power in a place where local leaders have few avenues to resist federal encroachment.
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Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows.
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President Donald Trump leaves the Capitol on March 12. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
President Donald Trump once again catapulted crime in D.C. into the national conversation with renewed threats last week of a federal takeover and an image of a young federal staffer, beaten and bloodied, after an attempted carjacking.
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Alaska will be the setting for Trump’s meeting with Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump in June 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP)
President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in none other than Alaska, the state the U.S. bought from the Russians in 1867 for a little more than $7 million.
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FBI dispatching agents to D.C. streets as Trump weighs calling National Guard
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U.S. Park Police perform a traffic stop on Friday in Washington. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)
The FBI has begun dispatching agents in overnight shifts to help local law enforcement prevent carjackings and violent crime in Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital and considers calling up the National Guard.
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White House is open to bringing Ukraine, Russia together for peace talks
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White House officials have suggested they are open to a trilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Roman Pilipey; Adrian Dennis; Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images)
Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that it would be up to President Donald Trump to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky together to broker a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
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Texas governor promises to keep redistricting fight going for years
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Donald Trump speaks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, in February 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
The fight over Texas’s congressional map “could literally last years,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Sunday, while defending his call to arrest Texas Democrats who fled the state to stall the GOP’s redistricting efforts.
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