A Metropolitan Police Department officer directs a vehicle to a secondary inspection at a checkpoint in the Ivy City neighborhood of Washington, DC, on August 28, 2025. Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The House has passed two bills that Republicans say would combat crime in Washington, DC, but that also limit the city’s self-governance as the GOP seeks to bolster President Donald Trump’s federal crackdown .

The bills passed on Tuesday are among more than a dozen being considered by Republicans in the wake of Trump’s National Guard deployment in Washington. The legislation now heads to the Senate for consideration.

Declaring crime in DC an emergency, Trump last month placed the city’s police department under federal control and deployed the National Guard . While the president

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