House GOP Won’t Extend Trump’s 30-Day DC Takeover
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on September 5, 2025
By Mark Steffen
The U.S. House of Representatives did not move to support President Donald Trump’s request seeking an extension of his control over Washington, D.C. beyond 30 days, a timeframe that ends next Wednesday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said as he left the floor that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s recent order that her local police force would coordinate “indefinitely” with the federal government “resolved some of” the issues.
The decision resolves a standoff that was sure to take place in the Senate, where Democrats had vowed to hold the line in preventing further federal control over Washington. Strategically, it also removes a hot-button issue from debate while congressional Republicans seek to raise the debt ceiling without a government shutdown.
Senate Republicans are not expected to seek an extension of federal policing forces in the nation’s capital either, according to Politico.
Bowser on Wednesday called for an end to the federal takeover, which President Trump invoked under a 52-year-old law that grants the city largely self-policing powers. He cited high-profile instances of violent crime to suggest that Bowser and the Democratic-led city council weren’t doing enough to keep its residents safe.
“I want the message to be clear to the Congress: We have a framework to request or use federal resources in our city,” Bowser said. “We don’t need a presidential emergency.”
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