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Today, Explained

Trump evicts homeless people

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

One of his strategies is throwing people into treatment programs without their consent. Blue states are into it, too?! This episode was produced by Rebeca Ibarra and Devan Schwartz, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. A homeless person sleeping on a bench in view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The takeover of Washington, D.C. by the President Donald Trump continues this week.

0:07.1

We got ICE officers detaining delivery drivers across the city. We got federal police officers from

0:13.7

multiple agencies, including the FBI, dealing with a drunk woman in DuPont Circle. And on Wednesday morning,

0:20.2

a 14-ton mine-resistant military vehicle

0:23.8

crashed into a car in Capitol Hill. A civilian basically got teaboned by a tank. But somewhere in the

0:31.1

background, the president of the United States is also trying to evict D.C.'s homeless population.

0:36.7

This has long been an obsession of his. We can't let homeless stay in the middle of our magnificent parks under the Washington Monument and other places. We're going to clean up Washington Free, D.C., and we're going to make it a crime-free zone. There's not going to be any crime. We're going to have laws, but we're going to have to take it over. We're going to evaluate the job he's doing with the unhoused on today Explained from Vox.

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Washington, D.C.

1:57.1

Today, explain Sean Ramos from here with Kyle Swenson, who reports on D.C. for Wapo.

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