Democrats seek to use DC police by Trump for federal purposes

Several Democratic legislators push a joint resolution which aims to put Kibosh on the decision of President Donald Trump this week to take advantage of the services of the DC metropolitan police department while he tries to repress crime in the national capital.

THE resolution The readings, in part, “resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America at the Congress, those under article 740 (B) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act … The emergency determined by the President on August 11, 2025, in the executive decree entitled” Emergency Decree of Crime in the District of Columbia “is here.”

The White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson sounded in a statement sent by email to Fox News Digital.

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“President Trump is taking daring measures to combat off -control crime that has afflicted Washington DC for too long. But instead of supporting what should be a bipartite measure to make DC again secure, Democrats bury their heads in the sand, the refuge, there is a problem and the transport of the torch for dangerous criminals that terrorize DC communities.”

“DC residents Know reality on the ground – the crime was out of control and the actions of President Trump make the city safer. The refusal of the left to support very popular problems with the American public – such as the cessation of violent crimes – is the reason why their approval ratings are at historical stockings and will continue to tank, “she added.

The Democrats of the Chamber introducing the joint resolution include the Jamie Raskin representatives of Maryland, Robert Garcia of California, and DEL. Eleanor Holmes Norton from the Columbia district, while senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD., I will present him in the upper chamber, according to a judicial committee of the Chamber, the Democrats of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee. press release.

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“Trump has clearly indicated that his efforts to DC, where 700,000 American citizens who contribute to the taxpayer do not have state protections, are part of a broader plan to militarize and federate the streets of America’s cities of which citizens have voted against him. The legislation that we introduce today would cease this campaign by putting the press of Trump.

“By virtue of the DC Home Rule Act, the Congress gave the President the power only to order the mayor to render the metropolitan police service at the disposal of a specific federal objective, but did not give him any power simply to take control of the ministry. In any event, there is no federal emergency justifying such a takeover even if the Congress sought to use the realization of the realization of the realization of he said.

Part of the joint resolution claims that the president has not stressed the conditions of emergency which oblige the use of the police for federal purposes at DC

In the executive decree Emitted this week, the president said, in part: “I determine that special conditions of an emergency of emergency exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police Department of the Columbia District (Metropolitan Police Force) for federal purposes …”

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The order notes: “In force immediately, the mayor of the Columbia district (mayor) will provide the services of the metropolitan police forces for federal purposes for the maximum period authorized under article 740 of the law on the domicile of domicile.”

THE Home Rule Act The fact that the president cited in his order notes that the police for federal purposes will end if the congress promulgates a joint resolution to provide this termination.

“Subject to the provisions of paragraph (c) of this article, these services made available in accordance with paragraph (a) of this article end at the end of this emergency, at the end of a period of thirty days following the date on which these services are made available, or the promulgation in law of a joint resolution by the congress providing for such a termination, the first law on law.

Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to this report