How Congress Could Enter the Fight over D.C.

D.C., it’s time to fight, for your right, to party

Recent weeks have seen a surge in negative rhetoric about the nation’s capital from the president and other leaders that he has appointed to live and work here. Like any large metropolitan area, there is traffic, crime, heat waves, un-housed people who are struggling to survive sometimes the worst of mental health scenarios, drug addiction, and other personal crises that need compassion, treatment, and care. Yet the president believes that the N…

Harrison Fields to Newsmax: Trump Wants Fix to D.C. Crime, Not End Home Rule

White House deputy press secretary Harrison Fields told Newsmax on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's efforts at reducing crime in the nation's capital is not an effort to end the District of Columbia's more than 50 years of self governance. "Not at all," Fields told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "And the sad reality is, if D.C. [were] a state, it would actually have the highest crime rate out of any of the states. You've seen a bre…

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 13)

The White House tells NTD that more than 100 arrests have been made since President Donald Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown began on Aug. 7. Around 400 National Guard troops are set to deploy in the capital tonight. Trump spoke with European allies and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, two days ahead of his historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He warned of consequences for Moscow if no progress is made on Friday and hinted a…

Karoline Leavitt says Trump is still mulling having Congress end D.C.'s Home Rule Act · American Wire News

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Tuesday that President Donald Trump is still mulling having Congress end D.C.’s Home Rule Act. Passed by Congress in 1973, the District of Columbia Home Rule Act is a federal law that grants limited self-governance to Washington, D.C., therefore allowing it to function kinda like a state while still remaining under federal oversight. The law specifically sets up a D.C. mayor and city council,…

It’s Time to Federalize Washington, D.C.

After 52 years of a failed home rule experiment, it’s time to return the responsibility for governing our nation’s capital to Congress as the Constitution intended.

How Congress could enter the fight over D.C.