President Donald Trump is expected on Monday to announce plans to use federal resources to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., and remove homeless people from the city’s public spaces, a move that local leaders are condemning as an overriding of local control of the city based on false pretenses .

Data show that violent crime in the nation’s capital is down significantly from a peak in 2023. But Trump paints a different picture. Trump described Washington as “one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World” in a post on Truth Social Saturday. On Sunday, Trump wrote, “I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”

In recent days, Trump

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