President Trump says he'll ask Congress for a "small amount of money" to beautify the District. Don't forget, GOP leaders in the House are still holding back a portion of DC's 2025 budget --- which lead to a $1.1 billion shortfall. @WUSA9

No ANC 5F Zoning & Development (ZAD) committee meeting tonight, due to August recess.

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

New: National Guard troops don't have police training, they can't make arrests, and many aren't even armed. So what's the point of sending them into DC? It's a strategy leaders have leaned on for years to appear tough on crime, but there are big doubts it'll make any difference:

HAPPENING NOW: Federal agents are in Shaw asking pedestrians for papers. Avoid the area. I am going to start carrying my “papers” in the slowest, most cumbersome way possible—every extra second might help someone else.

Salah Czapary You don’t have to show anything unless the police have reasonable suspicion you committed a crime, otherwise what you have is a lawsuit

BREAKING — Attorney General Pam Bondi is scrapping local directives that severely limited cooperation between police in Washington DC and federal immigration agencies like ICE. Police officers in the nation’s capital can now fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

Respectfully, the Attorney General does not have the authority to revoke laws.

Let us be clear about what the law requires during a Presidential declared emergency: it requires the mayor of Washington, DC to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for federal purposes at the request of the President. We have followed the law. In

NEWS: AG Brian Schwalb is suing the Trump administration in federal court over a recent move to take day to day control of MPD. The lawsuit calls the move the “gravest threat to Home Rule that the District has ever faced.”

Important list of resources from Councilmember_RobertWhite :

BREAKING: DC Mayor Bowser announces that the District and the Trump administration have reached an agreement that DC Police Chief Pamela Smith will remain in command after last night’s attempt by AG Bondi to install DEA chief Terry Cole as emergency police commissioner.

Public Safety Walk - August 25 @ 6:30 p.m. Meet at T St and Summit Pl NE to address quality-of-life concerns in the T St NE area of Eckington. This is a great chance to connect with neighbors and share any safety concerns you have.

“This whole thing is being billed as a violent crime crackdown, but it’s just an immigration sweep,” Mark Rutstein, co-owner of Crush Dance Bar, told The Advocate on Saturday. advocate.com/news/dc-busine…

Congratulations to Julia Hedlund, the incoming Commissioner for 5F07! Looking forward to working with you for Eckington and DC.

There's now two classes of police in D.C.: - MPD officers, required to display name tags and use body-worn cameras, which are turned on during any engagement with the public. - Federal officers who are concealing their faces and don't have to wear name tags, and no body cameras.

NEW: Reservations at D.C. restaurants dropped 16% YoY the day Trump announced his police takeover. The next day, 27%. By Day 3 they were down 31% compared to 2024. It couldn't come at a worse time. D.C. Summer Restaurant Week starts... tomorrow. wusa9.com/article/news/l…

Woah! You can help pick the design of Metro's next-gen 8,000-series railcars. Voting is open now & closes @ 11:59p this Friday. NBC4 Washington

NEW: A majority of voters (51%) oppose the Trump administration taking over the D.C. police force and deploying the National Guard in the city.

DC Fire is shutting down Metro and Amtrak traffic at NoMa metro station to rescue a person on the tracks.