Overview

• President Trump directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi to assess how military assets and personnel can support crime prevention within 90 days.
• The orders aim to penalize sanctuary cities by identifying federal funds that could be reduced or terminated for non-cooperation with immigration enforcement.
• The directives include measures to increase pay and benefits for law enforcement officers and strengthen their legal protections.
• A reexamination of federal consent decrees, often used to enforce reforms in problematic police departments, was also ordered.
• Legal experts have raised concerns that deploying military personnel for civilian law enforcement could conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which restricts such use.