By Katherine Tinsley
6:12pm PDT, Aug 25, 2025
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Donald Trump is on a mission to change Washington, D.C., but the president is receiving pushback from a local nonprofit and the city's mayor,
Muriel Bowser.
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In a passionate Truth Social post, Donald Trump shared that he wants homeless people removed from Washington, D.C. "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital," he wrote. "The Criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong. It's all going to happen very fast, just like the Border."
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The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, which offers pro bono legal representation to people experiencing homelessness, responded to the president comments on X, writing, "No one has authority in this country to decide who has a right to live in a jurisdiction and who doesn't."
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"No one can be banished from a jurisdiction. We will not stand by if the federal government attempts to abuse its power against our community in this way," the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless continued on X, adding that they were "watching closely as the federal government broadcasts various threats to folks without homes in D.C."
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The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless declared that the federal government doesn't have the legal right to "disappear large groups of people because they cannot afford housing or are visibly homeless" and does "not have the authority to force people to move out of the state/city they live in."
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"People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status," the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless continued. "People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation's capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement."
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D.C. Mayor
Muriel Bowser addressed Donald Trump's comments about the city's homeless population during an appearance on
MSNBC's
The Weekend: "I have believed for a long time that Trump had a view that when he left the White House the last time at the height of COVID, he had a lot of concerns about homelessness, as did we. Those conditions simply don't exist now," she said.
