President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps Monday toward federalizing Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday he would hold a press conference Monday at the White House to present his plan to "stop violent crime" in the capital.

The Trump administration is preparing to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, a U.S. official told Reuters.

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President Donald Trump announced Monday his intentions to deploy federal law enforcement officials to clean up Washington, DC and further combat violent crime in the city.

President Donald Trump announced at a press conference Monday the federal government will take over Washington, D.C., including calling out the National Guard.

The president offered misleading statements about crime trends in the nation’s capital.

The president also takes control of the city's police force, as the mayor rejects his claims of a crime wave.

President Trump painted a dark picture of crime in the nation's capitol as he uses his executive authority to seize the city's police force

Trump takes control of police, deploys National Guard in a move DC-rights activist calls ‘just authoritarianism’.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an…

The mayor disputed Trump’s justification for declaring a crime emergency, noting that crime has been trending down in the city after spiking in 2023.

“I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” said Muriel Bowser, who refrained from attacking Trump for infringing on her role.

President Trump says he will deploy hundreds of troops to Washington DC to address crime there.

President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps Monday toward federalizing Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps Monday toward federalizing Washington, D.C.

Trump’s depiction of ‘lawless’ city at odds with crime statistics while local officials say move illegal – key US politics stories from Monday 11 August

Federal law gives presidents the power to take over Washington’s police force after declaring an emergency, but Donald Trump is the first president to do so.

Despite being up in arms after President Donald Trump 'overstepped' and federalized the local police on Monday, Washington, DC, residents do admit that crime is a problem.

Although crime has fallen in the US capital, Donald Trump is framing it as a crackdown on lawlessness and echoing his hard-line immigration tactics.

No one believes that the deployment of troops to America’s most liberal, most racially diverse, and most culturally thriving cities is about solving a real problem