Vice President JD Vance spoke to reporters at Washington, DC’s Union Station on Wednesday and signaled that President Trump will extend the emergency in DC and keep the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control if necessary.
“if the President of the United States thinks that he has to extend this order to ensure that people have access to public safety, then that’s exactly what he’ll do,” Vance said.
“This is the national, cultural, and political capital of the world’s greatest nation, and you talk to people black, brown, white, so many of them are afraid to bring their kids into its public spaces. It’s a shame. It’s a blight. It actually should make every American ashamed that the world’s leading superpower, our national capital, was unsafe for families to walk around at night. ”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump signed two executive actions to declare a “public safety emergency” in the nation’s capital, federalize the DC police force, and authorize the use of National Guard troops to tackle the rampant crime, homelessness, and illegal immigration crises.
Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act allows the President to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department under “special conditions of an emergency nature,” but Congressional approval is required to federalize the police for more than 30 days.
Vance was asked on Wednesday if the administration plans to go past the 30-day limit and whether he thinks Congress will grant the extension.
WATCH:
Reporter: Will you extend past 30 days, and will Congress go along with it?
Vance: We’ll ultimately let the President of the United States determine where we are after 30 days of this emergency order. I think that we’re going to make a lot of progress over the next 20 days. I think that we’re nine days into this thing. But if the President of the United States thinks that he has to extend this order to ensure that people have access to public safety, then that’s exactly what he’ll do. If he thinks he doesn’t have to do that, obviously, he’ll make that determination, but what we’re going to do is try to empower these guys to do as good of a job as possible to bring public safety and order back to Washington, DC.
This is the national, cultural, and political capital of the world’s greatest nation, and you talk to people black, brown, white, so many of them are afraid to bring their kids into its public spaces. It’s a shame. It’s a blight. It actually should make every American ashamed that the world’s leading superpower, our national capital, was unsafe for families to walk around at night. That is a disgrace, we don’t think that it’s acceptable, and thank God we have the presidential leadership to change it, and that’s exactly what we’re trying to do.
Vance’s comments came as he visited the Union Station transit hub in Washington, DC, which is used by approximately 100,000 commuters per day to go in and out of the city.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller paid a visit to National Guard troops at the station for lunch.
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