Trump To Announce Plans To Address Crime In D.c. After Increasing Federal Law Enforcement

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will clasp a news convention this greeting astir making Washington, D.C. "safer and much beautiful," he announced connected Truth Social connected Sunday.

The president said nan taxable of news convention will "not only impact ending nan Crime, Murder, and Death successful our Nation’s Capital, but will besides beryllium astir Cleanliness and nan General Physical Renovation and Condition of our erstwhile beautiful and good maintained Capital."

The arena comes a week aft nan president again threatened a national takeover of D.C. pursuing an alleged battle connected Edward Coristine, an original Department of Government Efficiency staffer known online arsenic "Big Balls," successful an attempted carjacking.

In caller days, nan president boosted nan national rule enforcement beingness successful D.C., which White House property caput Karoline Leavitt framed arsenic a "first measurement successful stopping nan convulsive crime that has been plaguing nan streets of Washington, DC."

Trump besides has nan authority to return power of nan section police, but Congress would request to repeal nan 1973 Home Rule Act, which granted D.C. constricted self-governance, successful bid for Trump to enact a afloat national takeover.

The president is besides said to beryllium considering ordering nan National Guard into nan district, which could beryllium announced today, according to a defense charismatic and 2 U.S. officials.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said successful an MSNBC question and reply yesterday that she thinks Trump will denote he is surging national rule enforcement successful nan superior and pushed backmost connected nan assertion that D.C. is riddled pinch crime.

“If nan privilege is to show unit successful an American city, we cognize [Trump] tin do that here, but it won’t beryllium because there’s a spike successful crime,” Bowser said.

D.C. police information indicate that convulsive crime has decreased 26% compared to past year. The D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office also announced successful January that convulsive crime successful D.C. successful 2024 was astatine a 30-year low, citing constabulary data.

The president said connected Truth Social that he would besides talk plans to make nan territory "more beautiful than it ever was before," which would see removing bum group from nan city.

"The Homeless person to move out, IMMEDIATELY," Trump wrote. "We will springiness you places to stay, but FAR from nan Capital. The Criminals, you don’t person to move out. We’re going to put you successful jailhouse wherever you belong."

In a abstracted station to Truth Social, Trump indicated he would besides attraction connected "the Cleanliness and nan General Physical Renovation and Condition of our erstwhile beautiful and good maintained Capital." He past referred to nan renewal of nan Federal Reserve headquarters, which he has antecedently criticized, saying it "could person been done successful a acold much elegant and clip delicate manner" for acold little money.