Executive Order No. 14339. Additional Measures To Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia

• Executive Order No.: 14339
• Published date: 28 August 2025
• Date: 25 August 2025
• Citation: 90 FR 42121
• Pages: 42121-42123
• Section: Presidential Documents
• Issuer: Executive Office of the President

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Executive Order 14339 of August 25, 2025

Additional Measures To Address the Crime Emergency in the

District of Columbia

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Crime Emergency. Two weeks ago, I declared a crime emergency

in the District of Columbia to address the rampant violence and disorder

that have undermined the proper and safe functioning of the Federal Govern-

ment, and therefore, the Nation, and that have led to disgraceful conditions

in our Nation’s capital. In furtherance of Executive Order 14333 of August

11, 2025 (Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia), I am

now ordering further actions to address the conditions described in that

Executive Order.

Sec. 2. Operational Actions. (a) The Director of the National Park Service

shall, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, hire

additional members of the United States Park Police in the District of Colum-

bia to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. The

United States Park Police shall ensure enforcement of all applicable laws

within their jurisdiction, including the Code of the District of Columbia,

to help maintain public safety and proper order.

(b) The United States Attorney for the District of Columbia shall, subject

to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, hire additional

prosecutors to focus on prosecuting violent and property crimes.

(c) The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order

14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful),

shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or

other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law

enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive

Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C.

Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of

the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further,

subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately

create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized

unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s

capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and

that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where

public safety and order has been lost.

(d)(i) The Secretary of Defense shall, subject to the availability of appropria-

tions and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning,

hiring, and equipping a specialized unit within the District of Columbia

National Guard, subject to activation under Title 32 of the United States

Code, that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s

capital. As appropriate and consistent with applicable law, the Attorney

General, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Homeland Security,

in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall each deputize the mem-

bers of this unit to enforce Federal law.

(ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each

State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained,

organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement

in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order

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whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In co-

ordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense

shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National

Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such

purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability

of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced,

trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

(e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shall inves-

tigate any non-compliance with the crime-prevention and safety requirements

of HUD agreements by the District of Columbia Housing Authority or any

landlord in the District of Columbia. These investigations shall include

consideration of the provisions of such agreements that require housing

providers to maintain safe, decent, and sanitary conditions or to restrict

tenants who engage in criminal activity that threatens health, safety, and

the right to peaceful enjoyment for other tenants, including engaging in

drug distribution, violent criminal activity, and domestic violence. The Sec-

retary of HUD shall refer any findings of non-compliance to the Attorney

General, Federal law enforcement authorities, the District of Columbia Hous-

ing Authority Police Department, and the Metropolitan Police Department,

as appropriate.

(f) The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct additional inspections,

audits, and examinations to determine whether conditions exist in federally-

funded transit services in the District of Columbia that endanger transit

workers, and take appropriate remedial action that is within the Department

of Transportation’s authority.

Sec. 3. Potential Amendments to Metropolitan Police Department General

Orders. (a) The Attorney General shall review the Metropolitan Police Depart-

ment General Orders and shall request that the Mayor of the District of

Columbia make such updates and modifications to such orders as the Attor-

ney General determines are necessary to address the crime emergency and

ensure public order and safety.

Sec. 4. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of

any provision to any individual or circumstance, is held to be invalid,

the remainder of this order and the application of its other provisions

to any other individuals or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed

to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency,

or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and

subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,

employees or agents, or any other person.

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(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department

of Justice.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 25, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025–16614

Filed 8–27–25; 11:15 am]

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