President Trump Asserts Federal Control Of Washington, D.C.
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:37.1 | 12.21 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, August 11th, 2025. Things may have changed, but I'll still be sleep deprived for the next, however many months. |
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| 1:12.4 | exercise more control over Washington, D.C. The president held a news conference to discuss his plans |
| 1:18.3 | this morning. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, |
| 1:25.9 | bedlam, and squaloror and worse. This is Liberation |
| 1:31.3 | Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back. |
| 1:36.9 | Now, Trump says he's deploying the National Guard and that the federal government is taking |
| 1:41.1 | control of the city's police department. That's for up to the next 30 |
| 1:45.1 | days. Tam, what did you hear from Trump during that news conference? Yeah, so he is invoking section |
| 1:51.3 | 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. That goes back to the 1970s. And Washington, D.C. is a unique place because it isn't a state and it is a city |
| 2:05.3 | that is basically the capital city where the president has much more power to do things than he does |
| 2:14.2 | in any other American city. And so what he is doing here is flooding the zone. |
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