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Trump threatens to take ‘federal control’ of DC after DOGE staffer attack
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Donald Trump has threatened a federal takeover of Washington DC after an attempted carjacking of a former Department of Government of Efficiency (DOGE) employee.
On Truth Social, the president shared a picture of Edward Coristine – a 19-year-old former DOGE staffer – who appeared bloodied after an attempted carjacking.
Trump wrote that DC is “totally out of control”, and if the city doesn’t “get it’s act together” he will have “no choice but to take Federal control”.
The president said, at the beginning of his second term, he supports a federal takeover of the nation’s capital. The DC Home Rule Act of 1973 means that DC residents elect their local politicians who run the daily functioning of the city.
