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This joint resolution would overturn a presidential emergency declaration issued on August 11, 2025, that authorized federal control over the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department. The resolution argues that the President failed to demonstrate the special emergency conditions necessary to justify federalizing the police force, and contends that even under the D.C. Home Rule Act, the President cannot fully take over the MPD but can only request the Mayor to provide specific police services for federal purposes. The sponsors cite declining violent crime rates in D.C.—currently at 30-year lows—as evidence that an emergency does not exist, and note that the federal government has blocked the district from spending $1 billion in locally-raised tax revenues designated for public safety, law enforcement, fire services, and schools. If passed, the resolution would end the emergency declaration and restore normal operations of D.C.'s police department.

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