President Donald Trump on 25 August signed two additional executive orders aimed at deepening the federal government’s control over policing and prosecutions in Washington, D.C. The directives instruct federal agencies to maximise the use of federal charges and custody for suspects arrested in the capital and authorise further measures to reinforce law-enforcement operations already under way. The moves build on Trump’s 11 August declaration of a public-safety emergency, which placed the Metropolitan Police Department under temporary federal command and brought in National Guard troops from several states. Federal and local officials say the intervention has produced more than 550 arrests and coincided with 11 consecutive days without a homicide in a city that had averaged roughly one killing every other day for decades. Vice President JD Vance credited the lull with saving “six or seven lives” and accused critics of ignoring the results. Speaker Mike Johnson said the crime drop shows the president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, while Democratic elected officials in the region denounced the heightened federal role as overreach. Separately, Representative Andy Biggs is preparing legislation that would extend the president’s emergency authority over D.C. police from 30 to 180 days and reverse the district’s cash-free bail policy, seeking to entrench the crackdown beyond the current executive orders.