Overview

• President Trump invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act to place District policing under federal control backed by the National Guard, FBI, DEA and U.S. Park Police.
• About 70 homeless encampments have been removed from federal parks under the policy that offers shelter and addiction or mental-health services ahead of potential fines or incarceration.
• The administration has signaled intentions to relocate people outside the city but has not specified where they would be housed or how transport and funding will be managed.
• District authorities have increased outreach visits to remaining encampments and opened temporary housing for roughly 200 people while federal plans are refined.
• Homelessness and civil-rights groups have announced legal challenges, arguing that involuntary removals and penalties for refusal raise constitutional and human-rights concerns.