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Opinion: Taking over DC police isn’t “small government”
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U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters during a news conference to discuss crime in Washington, D.C., in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 11, 2025. President Donald Trump announced Monday that he was deploying National Guard troops and putting the Washington police force under federal control to tackle crime in the U.S. capital. "This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back," Trump said at a White House press conference. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
Imagine if the federal government seized control of your city’s police department, despite crime falling sharply, simply because it didn’t like how your elected leaders were running it. That’s exactly what just happened in Washington, D.C., and it’s the opposite of the “small government” and “local control” principles Republicans claim to defend.