House Republicans will take up DC crime bills to bolster Trump's federal crackdown

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2025, 5:07 PM ET


House Republicans are gearing up to consider more than a dozen bills that would further limit Washington, DC’s self-governance, impose tougher punishments and roll back criminal justice reforms in the wake of President Donald Trump’s federal crime crackdown.

The House Oversight Committee will take up the bills Wednesday in a move aimed at bolstering the president’s push, which has drawn the ire of many city residents and Democrats who argue it’s unwarranted federal overreach. Republicans argue the legislation would combat crime and empower local law enforcement.

Declaring crime “out of control” in DC last month, Trump placed the city’s police department under federal control and deployed the National Guard. Though the president’s takeover of the DC police department technically ends Wednesday, the administration hasn’t put an end date on the surge of federal law enforcement and National Guard troop deployment.

House Oversight Chair James Comer told CNN that the reason his committee is taking up these bills is in part to create a longer-term fix to Trump’s use of the National Guard in DC.

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