OPINION
D.C. Is a Total Mess and It Isn’t Just Crime
Katie Pavlich | Aug 15, 2025
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It’s been nearly one week since President Donald Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to take back Washington, D.C., America’s capital city, and return it to the people of the United States.
"I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our Nation's Capitol from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,” Trump said from the White House briefing room, no doubt receiving cheers from living rooms across the country. “The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia," Trump continued. "The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled."
The move comes five decades after Washington, D.C. was given a chance at self-governance, which was contrary to the U.S. Constitution and the determination that the District would remain a federal jurisdiction.
“Cut it how you like, but the fact will remain: the people of Washington, D.C., have no greater capacity to avoid direct federal rule than did the erstwhile denizens of the Northwest Territory. Per the plain terms of the U.S. Constitution, Congress has plenary power over ‘the Seat of Government of the United States,’ which is not a city, or a state, or even a reservation, but a special district like no other in the land,” National Review aptly explains. “If the national legislature wishes to, it can delegate some of its power to a council or a mayor or an emissary in a pointy hat. But it is not obliged to do so, and if, according to its judgment, any existing deputation has become intolerable, it can abolish or limit it at will. In D.C., home rule is a luxury, a privilege, an indulgence. It is not a right.”
Families can’t visit. It’s embarrassing to host foreign leaders. Young people can’t go out at night. Armed carjackings and murders happen at all hours of the day, in neighborhoods all over the city. Parks are occupied by homeless encampments. Enough.
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