“We will restore and renovate our nation's once great cities, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. And that includes our nation's capital.”
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Trump issued Executive Order 14252 (March 27, 2025) creating the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, and on Aug. 11, 2025 declared a crime emergency in Washington, taking federal control of the Metropolitan Police and deploying roughly 2,000 National Guard troops. A CBS News analysis found violent crime down by almost half during the first 19 days of the surge, though later independent analyses found no measurable lasting effect on violent crime and noted D.C. crime was already declining. Concrete action focused on the capital; no comparable nationwide program to restore and renovate American cities broadly has been delivered as of July 2026.
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