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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Sep 11, 2025, 01:39 PM Sep 2025

Trump's 30-day takeover of the DC police is ending. What happens next?

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's 30-day public emergency declaration in Washington is set to expire after Sept. 10, ending the federal takeover of the city's police department but not the presence of the military in the nation's capital.

Trump's deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to the District of Columbia aren't affected by the deadline and will remain on the city's streets.

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What happens after the 30-day mark?

Trump on Aug. 11 signed an executive order declaring a crime emergency in Washington, invoking a section in the federal Home Rule Act of 1973 that allows him to direct the district to give his administration control of the police department for 30 days.

The Republican two-term president tapped Attorney General Pam Bondi to take temporary command of the district's police department and named Terry Cole, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, the interim federal commissioner of the police department.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trumps-30-day-takeover-dc-160830570.html

Bondi? I don't think thing will be safer with her in charge.

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