Trump threatens the national emergency to keep control of the DC police forces

President Donald Trump said he could declare a national emergency to maintain control of Washington, the DC police forces if the congress does not work with him to extend the current federalization plan.

Trump made the statement at a press conference at the Kennedy Center in Washington, arguing that he can maintain control over the Metropolitan Police Department indefinitely if he declares a national emergency. According to the current structure, the federal government took control of the MPD for a 30 -day period on Monday.

“Your federalization of the police has a limit of 30 days unless the congress agrees to extend it. Are you talking to the Congress to extend it, or do you believe that 30 days are enough?” Asked Daily Signal Reporter The White House Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell.

“Well, if it is a national emergency, we can do it without the congress. But we expect to be before the congress very quickly. And again, we think that the Democrats will do nothing to stop the crime, but we think that the Republicans will do so almost unanimous. We will therefore need a crime bill. We will use a positive example.”

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event at Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

Trump continued by confirming that his administration would seek “long -term extensions” at the limit of 30 days.

“You can’t have 30 days,” he said. “We are going to do it very quickly, but we will want extensions. I don’t want to call a national emergency, but if I owe it.”

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Trump announced the repression of his DC crime and the repression of the homeless last week, calling for the national guard and the federal police in addition to federating the MPD.

The police have arrested more than 100 people since August 7, which includes 43 who were arrested on Tuesday, a Fox Digital Fox official told Fox Digital on Wednesday morning. The arrests are part of Trump’s executive decree of Trump, who established to make a safe and magnificent working group, before Trump’s announcement on Monday, federalize the DC police service.

A homeless camp remaining in Washington, DC, illustrated on Monday, August 11, 2025. (Fox News Digital)

“The bold leadership of President Trump quickly returns the capital of our country safe,” the White House spokesman Taylor Rogers told Fox Digital. “In less than a week, more than 100 violent criminals have already been arrested and withdrawn from the streets of Washington, the president of DC Trump holds his campaign promise to clean this city and restore American grandeur to our expensive capital.”

The White House says that those who live in homeless camps in the national capital will have two choices in the coming days: accepting treatment in a shelter for homeless or going to prison. The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sent the message at a Tuesday press conference.

FBI agents and border patrols stop a man along the corridor on rue U during a federal deployment of the law in the national capital on August 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Leyden / Getty images)

“Seventy-to-brushing camps have been removed by American park police,” said Leavitt, adding that the metropolitan police service would join the park police in the effort. “There are only two homeless camps left in DC federal parks under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, and the abolition of these remaining two camps is planned for this week.”

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Leavitt added that those who refuse shelters and care of the homeless people could be confronted with prison terms.

Emma Colton of Fox News contributed to this report