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Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] · D–MD
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-08-15 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This proposed joint resolution would end the emergency declared by the President on August 11, 2025, concerning crime in Washington, D.C. It concerns presidential use of the city's local police for federal purposes. The resolution argues that the emergency is unjustified and that existing law limits the President's authority over those police services.
That pursuant to section 740(b) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–207.40(b), D.C. Official Code), the emergency determined by the President on August 11, 2025, in the Executive Order titled Declaring a crime emergency in the District of Columbia is hereby terminated.
Whereas the President has failed to identify special conditions of an emergency nature that compel the use of the Metropolitan Police Department for Federal purposes in the District of Columbia;
Whereas, even if properly invoked for an actual emergency, section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act does not empower the President to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), but rather limits the President to directing the Mayor to provide him with the use of MPD’s services to carry out specific Federal purposes;
The operative provision would terminate the emergency identified in the August 11, 2025, executive order titled “Declaring a crime emergency in the District of Columbia,” invoking section 740(b) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. It specifies no separate implementation date or additional condition for termination.
That pursuant to section 740(b) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–207.40(b), D.C. Official Code), the emergency determined by the President on August 11, 2025, in the Executive Order titled Declaring a crime emergency in the District of Columbia is hereby terminated.
The introductory statements argue that the President has not identified emergency conditions justifying use of D.C. police for federal purposes. They also interpret existing law as allowing the President to direct the Mayor to provide police services for specific federal purposes, rather than place the police department under federal control. These are the resolution's stated reasons, not new grants of police authority.
Whereas the President has failed to identify special conditions of an emergency nature that compel the use of the Metropolitan Police Department for Federal purposes in the District of Columbia;
Whereas, even if properly invoked for an actual emergency, section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act does not empower the President to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), but rather limits the President to directing the Mayor to provide him with the use of MPD’s services to carry out specific Federal purposes;
As another reason for ending the emergency, the resolution states that violent crime in D.C. had declined for two years and stood at a 30-year low. This is an assertion in the introduced text, not an independently established crime trend in the supplied evidence.
Whereas violent crime in the District of Columbia has declined for the past two years and currently stands at a 30-year low; and
The resolution also states that, in 2025, the federal government prevented D.C. from spending $1 billion of locally raised revenue budgeted for public safety purposes, including law enforcement, fire and emergency response services, and schools. This introductory statement describes a funding restriction; it does not itself authorize spending or release that money.
Whereas the Federal Government, in 2025, has prevented the District of Columbia from spending $1 billion of its own locally-raised revenues—money that was budgeted for essential public safety purposes, including law enforcement, fire and emergency response services, and schools: Now, therefore, be it
The supplied actions snapshot, updated March 27, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on August 15, 2025. It supplies no later legislative action.
Source snapshot updated 2026-03-27T19:07:20Z. 2025-08-15: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 2025-08-15: Introduced in House 2025-08-15: Introduced in House
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