President Donald Trump said he will outline a sweeping plan to "make Washington safer and more beautiful" at a White House press conference set for 10 a.m. Eastern on Monday. In weekend posts on his Truth Social platform, the president vowed to relocate homeless people "far from the capital," jail offenders and deploy additional federal resources, declaring that the nation’s capital will “soon be one of the safest cities in the world.” The administration has already ordered a week-long surge of roughly 450 federal officers drawn from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Park Police and other agencies. A White House official said arrests for stolen firearms and narcotics were made during the first nights of the operation, which was launched after a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer was injured in an attempted carjacking. Trump also raised the prospect of "federalizing" the District—an action that would require Congress to roll back the city’s 1973 Home Rule Act—while criticizing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s handling of crime and cleanliness. Bowser countered on MSNBC that Washington is "not experiencing a crime spike" and said her administration has worked with federal partners to bring violent incidents to a 30-year low. Metropolitan Police Department statistics show violent crime fell 26% in the first seven months of 2025 compared with a year earlier, and overall crime is down 7%. Advocates likewise questioned the president’s focus on homelessness; the Community Partnership, which tracks the issue, estimates 3,782 single homeless individuals in the city, about 800 of them unsheltered. The White House has not detailed what legal authority it would use to evict people from public spaces.