'Chaos, fear and confusion': Trump-backed crackdown hits DC's homeless population
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Fear and confusion are spreading among Washington, DC’s homeless population at the start of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on encampments.
Leaders from three prominent advocacy groups in the nation’s capital — where about 800 people live on the streets on any given night — told CNN they’re bracing for the worst, lobbying city officials to open up more shelter beds, and mulling potential lawsuits.
Facing new pressure from Trump, DC officials are also grappling with the same broad question that other big cities have faced as they seek to get homeless people off the street: How to provide enough shelter space and services to accommodate them.
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His antagonistic posture toward a city where Kamala Harris won 90% of the vote last year should not come as a surprise, conservative
strategist Gregg Keller told CNN.
“it’s a very poorly kept secret,” Keller said. “It’s understood within the political right and the Trump administration that these advocacy groups are often little more than political arms of the Democrat Party, which helps explain why they’re being targeted for scrutiny.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/politics/washington-dc-homeless-trump
