Donald Trump Reveals New 'Comprehensive Crime Bill'
Source: Newsweek
President Donald Trump has announced that he is working with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on a "Comprehensive Crime Bill." Newsweek contacted the White House for comment via email outside normal business hours.
Why It Matters
Trump has made a crackdown on crime, especially in major cities, a cornerstone policy of his second term. New legislation could enable the president to take more steps in his campaign against crime, which he has branded "Making America Safe Again."
Trump's push on what he characterizes as lawlessness began earlier this month with the declaration of a "crime emergency" in Washington, D.C., and the temporary federal takeover of the city's police powers. The scope has now expanded to Democrat-led cities and states, pitting the administration against local officials who view this as both unnecessary and an example of executive overreach.
What To Know
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, said he was working with Republicans on comprehensive new legislation on crime. "Speaker Mike Johnson, and Leader John Thune, are working with me, and other Republicans, on a Comprehensive Crime Bill. It's what our Country need, and NOW! More to follow," Trump wrote. He did not elaborate.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-crime-bill-republicans-mike-johnson-thune-2119903
Johnson and Thune are probably like "Huh?"
The government will shutdown at the end of next month unless some appropriations bills get passed and/or a C.R. is passed.

BoRaGard
(7,526 posts)justice and Americans demand
sop
(16,014 posts)the nelm
(167 posts)Dump already has 34 felony guilty verdicts, and there were a lot more pending...including stealing how many classified documents? At least 300 that he was charged with. Any other average schmoe convicted with that many classified docs on his account would be looking at a long haul in pokey.
tanyev
(47,769 posts)
S/V Loner
(9,431 posts)Increase crimes on their part with legal cover.
Cheezoholic
(3,288 posts)DSandra
(1,680 posts)The Latin word dictātor, a chief magistrate appointed during an emergency by the Roman Senate for a limited time, of which one of them, Cornelius Sulla, used a civil war to gain absolute power, abolish the time limit, abolish the restraints of the senate, and basically become what we now know as a dictator.
Dictators want emergencies because thats how they get their absolute power.
William Seger
(11,810 posts)Newsweek? After he declared that he is entitled to do anything he wants, "temporary" means whatever the faux-king idiot says it means, so why are you sane-washing it?
DSandra
(1,680 posts)Cornelius, the dictator of which dictator was coined as a tyrannical authoritarian leader, eliminated time limits making him an absolute ruler for an unlimited time.
Using the excuse as temporary is a part of what dictator wannabes do.
William Seger
(11,810 posts)hadEnuf
(3,397 posts)Welcome to Nazi America.
mwooldri
(10,706 posts)... all the infrastructure weeks his previous administration had. i.e. it amounted to nothing.
ananda
(33,137 posts)Total crackdown on anyone who is not
a rich white male who kisses his ring.
twodogsbarking
(15,741 posts)timms139
(389 posts)are all in the White House and congress labeled as project 2025 and Republicans appointed and elected to office.
Owens
(561 posts)Just watch. Don't we already have laws on the books regarding crimes?
thought crime
(782 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(1,002 posts)It will make anything that is not white "christian" nationalist, illegal.
jgmiller
(640 posts)The bigger question is do the dems in the senate have the balls to block it and no even bother with the word negotiate. Dems also need to feed into the fears of all the militia types that they are coming for them next so they turn some reps to a no vote.
republianmushroom
(21,371 posts)if the are more laws. Making more laws doesn't make you the law and order party, obeying those that are already on the books does. Seems republican folks have a problem with that, obeying what is already there.
Initech
(106,306 posts)
BumRushDaShow
(160,105 posts)By Meredith Lee Hill and Jordain Carney
08/27/2025 03:46 PM EDT
President Donald Trump is envisioning a sweeping crime bill and billions of dollars in new funding for the nations capital. His Republican allies in Congress are largely in the dark on the details.
Multiple times this month, Trump has said hes working on crime legislation with GOP congressional leaders. His latest comment came early Wednesday morning when he posted on Truth Social that he is working with Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican lawmakers on a Comprehensive Crime Bill with more to follow.
There have been some early conversations between White House officials and House GOP leadership aides about legislation related to Trumps public-safety crackdown in Washington as well as certain other crime provisions.
But Trumps latest comments have puzzled Republicans, including members of leadership and key congressional committees, who dont know what comprehensive measure the president is talking about, according to seven Republicans granted anonymity to speak candidly.
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