ToplinePresident Donald Trump has suggested his deployment of the National Guard and city police in Washington D.C. could soon be replicated in other Democratic-led cities—a prospect that would be more difficult for him legally,

Democrats in Congress denounced the 30-day mobilization inside the capital, which Trump previewed during the 2024 election, as an “unjustified power grab” and vowed to block an extension. The city’s elected attorney general called it an “unlawful” abuse of emergency powers to lower crime rates that the administration itself said had fallen.