The republican house pushes to extend Trump’s police authority to Washington DC

A republican of the Chamber wants to allow President Donald Trump to extend his takeover from Washington, the DC police forces as long as he wishes.

The representative Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Works on a resolution which rewrites the interval rule law, the law that Trump uses to take control of the district metropolitan police service (MPD) and remove barriers that limit the duration of the president who can supervise the local police agency.

Ogles accused that “the only way to save it is to federalize the district”.

“President Trump has already intensified – using the emergency powers granted under DC Home Rule Act – but the 30 -day limit in the current law is far from being sufficient to undo chaos that Democrats have been unleashed,” he told Fox News Digital. “My resolution will give the president all the time and the authority he needs to crush anarchy, restore order and recover our capital once and for all.”

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A republican of the Chamber wants to allow President Donald Trump to extend his takeover from Washington, the DC police forces as long as he wishes. (Katopodis Tasos)

Trump said a criminal emergency in the country’s Capitol on Monday on Monday and invoked a section of the domicile rule that governs the district to give himself the power to take control of the local police.

He has since sent troops from the National Guard, alongside FBI and DEA agents, to patrol the streets of Washington DC

But the provision, known as article 740 of the law on the rule of domicile, allows the president to effectively federate local police forces up to 30 days unless the congress, by a joint resolution, grants him an extension.

And the resolution of Ogles seeks to change this by deleting the period of 30 days.

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Representative Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Arrived at the American Capitol on April 10, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

Instead, the president should inform the surveillance of the room and the Senate committees on internal security and government affairs each time he wants to extend his control of the police – something that Trump was already having to prevent his grip on the MPD from detaching after 48 hours.

And this authority would continue unless the congress adopts a joint resolution calling at the end of its DC police control.

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Ogles legislation is one of its broader efforts to repeal the law on the rule of domicile. Indeed, he and the senator and him Mike LeeRutah, has a bill called the surveillance brought to Washington and security to all residents (Bowser), named after the mayor of DC Muriel Bowser, who would repeal the old decades and return control of the city to Congress.

Meanwhile, Trump has already launched the Congress which has a screening to extend his grip on the police, since joint resolution would probably require at least 60 votes in the Senate to pass.

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While some Republicans came out in support of the president, the Democrats of the Senate are ready to postpone the granting of more control over the district.

“No F – – – Way,” said the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., told Podcaster Aaron Parnas in his program, “The Parnas Perspective”.

“We are going to fight it tooth and nails … He must approve the congress, and not only are we not going to approve it, but there are republicans who do not like it either,” he continued.