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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday threatened to once again federalize Washington’s police force, in what he suggested could come in response to the mayor’s stated refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

Trump’s emergency order, which took over the local police force, expired last week. Hours before it elapsed, Mayor Muriel Bowser said that the city would not cooperate with Immigration Customs and Enforcement in its continued operations in the nation’s capital. Earlier, she had said the city would work with other federal agencies even after the emergency order expired.

In an early-morning social media post Monday, Trump said his intervention into D.C.’s law enforce

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