Overview

• One order directs federal authorities in Washington to seek federal custody and charges where permissible to limit local pretrial release.
• The second order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify cashless-bail jurisdictions within 30 days and tells OMB to pinpoint grants and contracts that could be suspended or terminated.
• The White House portrays the move as a public-safety step, with Trump labeling cashless bail a “disaster” and urging broader legislative action.
• Local officials and civil-liberties groups signaled pushback, citing empirical studies that show low violent reoffending rates under risk-based pretrial release.
• The measures build on Trump’s federalization of D.C. policing and National Guard deployments as the administration asserts greater control over public-safety policy in the capital.