AG Pam Bondi meets the mayor of DC while Trump temporarily federalizes the national capital

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city police chief went to the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday to meet the Attorney General Pam Bondi and other senior administration officials to discuss the temporary takeover of the National Guard in the national capital.

The meeting arrived a few hours after the president Donald Trump announced on Monday the project to temporarily federalize the application of the law in the national capital, both in deployment of hundreds of troops from the DC National Guard and taking short -term control of the city’s local police forces.

Addressing journalists after the meeting, Bowser said the sit-down was focused on coordination and strategy with the federal government.

“What I am focusing on is the federal overvoltage and how to make the most of the additional support we have,” said Bowser. “We have the best of the company with (chief of the metropolitan police) Pamela Smith to direct this effort and ensure that the men and women who come from the application of the federal law are well used, and that if there is the National Guard here, they are well used.”

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The American lawyer for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, with President Donald Trump and secretary Pete Hegseth, pronounced remarks during a press conference at the White House, on August 11, 2025. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

The meeting with Bondi and other senior Trump officials, including FBI director, Kash Patel, and the director of American services for service Gady Serralta, came after Trump announced on Monday his intention of the DC domicile rule of 1973 to send troops from the National Guard to DC, in the context of an effort to “restore order of order and public security” temporarily the city.

DC officials, for their part, also urged Calm on Tuesday, the chief Smith stressing to journalists that they work regularly alongside federal laws of law enforcement. “I think it will be a good effort,” she said on Tuesday.

“It will be an effort supported by the two teams, the metropolitan police service, as well as our federal partners,” she said.

“What we have done at this stage is that we have provided the team – the administrator – with a strategic plan on how we will provide resources in our city,” she said.

“I think it’s something that is achievable. We know that we have to remove illegal firearms from our streets, and if we have this influx or this presence improved, it will make our city even better.”

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President Donald Trump speaks with journalists in the White House on Monday, August 11, 2025. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)

The effort was separated separately by Bondi, which described the sit-down with Bowser on social networks as “productive”.

“We have agreed that there is nothing more important than keeping residents and tourists in Washington, DC, out of fatal crimes,” said Tuesday on Tuesday. “In the direction of President Trump, @thejusteedpt will work closely with the government of DC City and (the) @Dcpolicedept To make Washington, DC again safe. “”

Trump has long promised to “clean up” DC, a goal he has stressed since his first mandate.

In March, Trump signed an executive decree, “making DC Sa-Taste Task Force”, designed to solve the problems with a city that he has long turned into “dirty”, “horribly” and “crime” patterns, among others.

“We want to have great sure capital,” he told journalists earlier this year. “And we are going to have it. And that includes cleanliness and that includes other things.”

Bowser stressed at a press conference on Monday that crime rates fell into the city, pointing to preliminary figures compiled by the DC police service and released earlier this year.

Since then, “we have not removed our foot from the gas,” said Bowser on Monday. She said DC is continuing her efforts to combat violent crimes, even without the authorities of a complete state.

“I cannot say that given the rhetoric of the past, that we are totally surprised” by the efforts of the Trump administration, said Bowser at the press conference on Monday. “I can tell DC residents that we will continue to exploit our government in a way that makes you proud.”

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Meanwhile, the DC police union also declared on Monday that it supported the administration by taking control of the police forces, but stressed that they had not supported the move that as long as it is a “temporary measure”.