President Donald Trump said on Friday that Chicago is likely to become the next focus of his administration’s federal anti-crime campaign once operations in Washington, D.C., are completed. The move would extend a strategy that has already placed the nation’s capital under a federally led law-enforcement umbrella bolstered by National Guard troops. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump labelled Chicago “a mess” and asserted that residents are “screaming” for federal help. He added that he is prepared to authorize the deployment of additional National Guard units—and, if necessary, active-duty forces—should local authorities fail to curb violence. He also indicated that New York City could follow Chicago on the intervention list. Roughly 2,000 National Guard members were ordered into Washington earlier this month under a federal mission that the White House says has produced a week without homicides and hundreds of arrests. Trump highlighted those figures as evidence that the approach could work elsewhere. Any expansion of the crackdown is expected to draw opposition from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who control state and local law-enforcement resources. Legal scholars note that the Posse Comitatus Act limits the domestic use of active-duty military, raising questions about how a wider deployment would be carried out. The administration has not given a timeline or detailed plan for operations in Chicago.