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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — Promising a sweeping crackdown connected transgression and homelessness successful Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump is acceptable to outline a connection Monday that could include deploying the National Guard.
The announcement follows respective days of heightened national instrumentality enforcement patrols successful the city, contempt pushback from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who called the accrued beingness unnecessary.
Trump has argued helium plans to marque the territory "safer and much beauteous than it ever was before."
Troops acceptable if called upon: National Guard spokesperson
Overnight, a U.S. authoritative told NewsNation the subject was preparing for the anticipation of hundreds of National Guard troops being deployed connected D.C. streets.
A D.C. National Guard spokesperson said nary orders had been issued.
"We stay committed to providing trained and acceptable forces susceptible of providing enactment erstwhile called upon," the spokesperson said.
On Sunday, Trump wrote connected societal media that "before the tents, squalor, filth, and Crime, it was the astir beauteous Capital successful the World." He compared the effort to his attack astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump ordered much national instrumentality enforcement to patrol the territory past week. By Saturday night, 450 officers were patrolling fashionable tourer spots and made aggregate arrests, including respective for carrying firearms without a license.
Violent crime down 26% from past year: DC police
Metropolitan Police Department data shows convulsive transgression is down 26% compared to the aforesaid clip past year.
Bowser pushed backmost against Trump's absorption connected transgression successful the territory and said the diminution successful transgression is owed to the community's cooperation.
"We had a unspeakable spike successful transgression successful 2023, but this is not 2023, this is 2025," she said Sunday on MSNBC. "We've done that by moving with the community, moving with the police, moving with our prosecutors, and successful information moving with the national government."
Bowser argued the absorption should beryllium connected hiring much prosecutors and judges and improving the metropolis jail, alternatively than ramping up national enforcement.
