Congressman Troy Downing, R-Mont., on Wednesday predicted that getting crime under control in Washington, D.C., is a bipartisan issue that House Democrats and Republicans could get behind codifying.
“I think that is probably something we could all rally behind,” Downing said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “And this is coming to the message that we keep hearing over and over and dealing with over and over, is [that] the President is doing these orders that are short-term fixes. We need to start codifying those in Congress to make sure that they’re not short-term fixes [and] that we actually have a long-term horizon to solve that problem.”
On Monday, President Donald Trump said he would act to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., including by deploying the National Guard.
Trump lamented a long-term rise in crime in the city, highlighting that D.C.’s crime rates had surpassed the capitals of many other nations.
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