Trump assembles task force to crack down on D.C. crime

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

Updated 1 hour ago


President Trump is setting up a task force of federal officials directed to crack down on crime and "maximize immigration enforcement" in D.C.

Why it matters: After months of will-he or won't-he, Trump followed through on campaign rhetoric to intervene in the city's management.

State of play: Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that sets up a "D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force," which is instructed to work closely with local officials.

The order calls for "deploying a more robust federal law enforcement presence" in D.C.

It includes "directing maximum enforcement of federal immigration law and redirecting available federal, state, or local law enforcement resources to apprehend and deport illegal aliens" in the D.C. area.

The order also creates a new program to "beautify" Washington, per a White House fact sheet. That includes clearing homeless encampments and removing graffiti on federal land, as well as restoring federal buildings, monuments, memorials, parks, and roadways.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said the order is "insulting to the 700,000 D.C. residents."

The task force "would not include a single D.C. official to represent the interests of the people who reside within the District," she said in a statement.

Mayor Muriel Bowser's office didn't return Axios' request for comment.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/03/27/trump-dc-task-force-crime-immigration

[Lovie777]

1. Look within your own corrupt administration, asswipe........

[Vinca]

2. Guess they could start at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. There appears to be a large amount of grifting

by the occupants. Who knows what they might find. After all, a felon 34 times over lives there.

[Martin Eden]

9. THAT is the center of lawlessness not just in DC

But in the entire USA.

[Hope22]

3. Dear task force....

Please target the White House first. Do the city, country and planet a huge favor. Thank you in advance!

[MiHale]

4. It's a sign of his paranoia...

Trying to make a ‘shield’ for himself.

[sop]

5. "Trump assembles task force to crack down on D.C. crime." The jokes will just write themselves.

[twodogsbarking]

6. It's not people coming to the US that are the problem. It is the ones already here.

Easy to pick them out. They have red hats.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. "They have red hats."

And they desecrate the flag by wearing clothing made with one.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

8. See, he spends all his time at his Florida cult compound.

So a crackdown on "DC crime" wouldn't affect him.

[Attilatheblond]

10. Easy to see him building a D.C. Brownshirt division with promise of all the 'protection racket' $ they can get

E.O.s to entice the worst of us to do his 'man on the street' intimidation.

[mdbl]

11. Get the fox to guard the hens!