Trump, DC police and Congress
Digest more
District of Columbia Atty. Gen. Brian Schwalb said in a new lawsuit that President Trump is going far beyond his power under the law. Schwalb asked a judge to find that control of the police department remains in district hands.
A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's plan to reallocate more than $4 billion in federal disaster preparedness funds, marking a legal victory for 20 states that challenged the move.
Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it could be dismantled as soon as December. Lately, his team has backed away from that idea,
President Donald Trump said he may declare a national emergency in Washington, D.C. if Congress doesn't renew his control over the city's police department.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District’s police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement “notwithstanding” city law.
The Trump administration is transferring Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers to help speed the hiring of thousands of immigration enforcement agents, according to staff notices seen by Reuters and a government spokesperson,
Yesterday: Current and former CDC staff protested Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for their past criticisms of vaccines, saying their views endangered the CDC.
U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald asked President Donald Trump to make an emergency declaration to ensure Wisconsin communities have access to resources need to recover from severe floods.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington D.C.'s emergency police commissioner. The National Guard, FBI and other entities are now working to follow President Trump's directive to clean up the nation's capital.
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order Thursday that amounted to a reversal of "sanctuary" policies in D.C. The District sued over the order Friday.