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ARTICLE VIEW:
Trump is fine with letting his DC police takeover lapse, White House
officials say
By Alayna Treene, CNN
Updated:
1:13 PM EDT, Wed September 10, 2025
Source: CNN
doesn’t mind letting his 30-day takeover of Washington, DC’s
Metropolitan Police Department lapse on Wednesday, White House
officials told CNN — mainly because he feels the city has taken steps
to cooperate.
Those officials argued the executive order signed by DC Mayor Muriel
Bowser last week, which calls for indefinite collaboration with federal
law enforcement, achieves their goals without an extension that would
typically require congressional approval.
Trump has previously vowed to push lawmakers to approve his continued
federalization of the DC police force. But after , the officials said
he has abandoned plans to pressure GOP lawmakers to take up such a
bill, which would have required some Democratic support in the Senate.
“She committed to indefinitely coordinate with federal law
enforcement,” one of the officials said. “The key word is
‘indefinitely.’ That is what we want.”
The White House, the officials said, has discussed its revised plans
with House Speaker Mike Johnson. The Louisiana Republican previously
said the House would not vote to extend the crime emergency that
allowed the temporary federalization of MPD, telling reporters his
“understanding is it’s not necessary.”
Still, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday is that would
further limit Washington, DC’s self-governance, impose tougher
punishments and roll back criminal justice reforms in the city.
Among the bills are measures that would strip residents’ rights to
elect their attorney general, target homeless encampments and
“beautify” the city and lower the age at which juveniles can be
tried as adults. The legislation’s language has not been finalized
and could be amended during debate Wednesday.
Bowser, in a letter to the committee’s leadership, said the proposed
legislation could make the district “less efficient, competitive, and
responsive,” “less safe,” and “less democratic.”
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb, meanwhile, said the bill would
“displace the ability of District residents to have a voice in the
selection of local leaders.” The legislation, he argued, would
instead move “in favor of installing an Attorney General accountable
not to District residents, but to the President.”
Bowser has argued that Washington doesn’t need a “federal
emergency” and of her executive order. She said it’s meant to be a
pathway out of the federal takeover, and that it laid out “a
framework for how we will exit the emergency. The emergency ends on
September 10. The only way it can be extended legally is by the
Congress.”
Questions remain about how long the president plans to keep National
Guard troops on the streets of DC. National Guard presence in the city
is not subject to the same strict time constraints under federal law.
As , the National Guard troops deployed in Washington were expected to
have their military orders extended through December.
The city’s police department, for its part, is expected to return to
its pre-emergency “status quo” after Trump’s order expires,
Bowser said Wednesday. That would include no longer assisting the
federal government with immigration-enforcement operations.
“Immigration enforcement is not what MPD does, and with the end of
the emergency, it won’t be what MPD does in the future,” she said.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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