Officer Daniel Hodges: "The emergency federalization doesn't make a lot of sense to me...I served as a Virginia National Guard member for six years, and I can tell you that this is not what they're trained to do. They’re supposed to be behind a desk, you know, working that way.” Rather than helping local police in the harsher areas of the city, Hodges said, “you’re going to see [the federal agents] standing around in Chinatown or on the [National] Mall or walking around Georgetown.” (Social media footage from the first few days of Trump’s takeover shows them doing just that.) For one, he said, the president could “actually allow D.C. to spend its own money.” D.C., after all, is currently still “in the hole” by about $1 billion due to Republican cuts to the city’s budget.
Author: Malcolm Ferguson
Published at: 2025-08-13 21:35:13
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