And DC residents will follow most of the bill.
On August 21, 2025, Donald Trump visited a police officer of Anacostia Park in Washington, Colombia District.
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Among the shock and admiration Profession with armed troops of the National Guard With the mission of protecting the city that is experiencing 30-year-old low violent crimeIt was easy not to notice how swollen and extravagant siege of Donald Trump in Washington, Colombia County, turns out. With 2100 National Guard staff now wander the streets who sought to detain the residents Overfall federal fees To make Trump’s Magic more effective exercise exercise, an authoritarian project is a price tag over $ 1 million a day for Nick Turza’s report Interception. Trump has already noted that it plans to expand the siege outside the 30-day term entered in the House’s Rules Law section justify the absorption.
This means that costs will continue on the balloon – especially according to the president Just issued executive order Calling extensive mobilization of staff and resources throughout the federal government is that he is pleased to call the “Colombia District” a safe and beautiful initiative. Trump’s order requires new hiring at the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defense (as an agency managing the DC National Guard) and the US police, with raising law enforcement measures within the DC transit bodies and the US and Urban Development Ministry. The order also requires the creation of an “Internet portal” for applicants who have law enforcement agencies to join a new “specialized unit”, dedicated to “providing public safety and order in the country’s capital, which can be deployed every time the circumstances require and which can be deployed, depending on the current legislation, in other cities.
This huge mobilization is a distant cry from the fact that Trump initially crashed as a quick correction to the fictitious crime epidemic that stops democratic “incompetence”. It is difficult to evaluate the long -term costs for this large -scale security builder, with such an amount of even more weapons of the government going under its open mandate, but there are one recent similar authoritarian actions used as a rough measuring wand: huge waste of administration and ineffective outcomes of protests. This Federal Show Illegal Military Power lasted 60 days and probably price for 134 million dollars.
Compared to the action of the permanent current, which presents double open missions and modernization of the city’s infrastructure, federal mobilization in Los Angeles was a purposeful exercise and the exercise in question was painfully authoritarian and anti-democratic. To give Amsalini-Ambis Trump to make DC his playground, he asked in Congress an additional 2 billion dollars By spring only for urban repairs. (Of course, Trump is styled by this plan of decoration, but any fugitive look at his recent overhaul of the White House and plans for a $ 200 million ballroom, which he wants, shows that this designation is as a category mistake.)
The administration also oversee other huge projects based Take the 2026 World Cup draw In December. Trump Lakey also manages the National Capital Planning Commission, which controls the upgrade of the federal reserve headquarters, which has recently attracted IR Trump; Trump is looking in addition to using agency power over planned 3.7 dollars downtown For the football team of commanders, the racist nickname resumed as blackmailing the bait.
All these great tickets to remodel Washington into the image of Caligulan Trump are strangers and undemocratic on their own terms, but one development makes them especially: in 11 o’clock last spring to continue the funding of the government, the Senate Republicans participated in some Army Accounting To deprive the county of $ 1 billion funds raised from taxpayers in the area. This act of robbery has left a city that brutally presses the costs of basic services and support for revenue, which in any rational political order are key elements of true public order. Indeed, the testimony of the general ruling competence of the city, the lie of Trump, that the crime did not cause these steep and completely unjustified pressure on the budget.
Put things in another way: Washington, which was already felt from the economic impact of the parallel Trump administration Illegal and ideological dismissal of the federal laborNow it is effectively subsidizing the conditions of its own daily oppression. And just like Chicago and New York, they seem to be the following for the Pretorian Mag, debuted in Los -Angeles and Washington, so in the rest of the country there will be a dc beggar as a massive Trump costs, transforms Medicaid and drop costs for the Maga Crony Class. Trump called this tugg Project on landscaping too.
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