President Trump announced Monday that he is placing police in Washington, D.C., under federal control and deploying National Guard troops as part of what the president described as a crackdown on violent crime and blight in the nation’s capital.

President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and putting the city's police department under federal control, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation's capital.

President Donald Trump promised a weekend crackdown on unhoused population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.