Overview

• With the emergency order expiring at midnight, MPD Chief Pamela Smith resumes command and Mayor Muriel Bowser regains local authority over the police department.
• Hundreds of federal agents remain in Washington, and the U.S. Army directed the D.C. National Guard to stay through November, with some out-of-state Guard units also approved to continue deployments.
• The House Oversight Committee began marking up roughly a dozen-plus bills to expand federal control, including proposals to let the president appoint the D.C. attorney general, lengthen congressional review of local laws, lower the age for juveniles to be tried as adults, tighten pretrial detention and cash bail, and criminalize public camping.
• Bowser and D.C. leaders urged the committee to reject the package as an affront to Home Rule, even as the mayor formalized ongoing coordination with federal agencies while saying the city will not cooperate with ICE on immigration enforcement.
• District officials sued over the troop deployments as a “military occupation,” and critics cited a federal ruling against prior Guard use in Los Angeles, while crime statistics touted during the surge are disputed because declines began before the takeover.