{"id":2391099,"date":"2025-01-16T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-plans-for-friendly-revamp-of-dc-in-second-term-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:59:52","slug":"trump-plans-for-friendly-revamp-of-dc-in-second-term-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-plans-for-friendly-revamp-of-dc-in-second-term-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump plans for friendly revamp of DC in second term &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-plans-for-friendly-revamp-of-dc-in-second-term-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2391099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In\u200c his plans\u2063 for\u2063 a potential second term, President-elect Donald Trump has emphasized revitalizing and cleaning up Washington,\u200b D.C., aiming to address issues he believes \u2062were \u200cinadequately managed during his \u2062first term. He has targeted \u2063high \u2064crime rates, which notably\u200d spiked in 2023, \u200band has pledged that the \u2064Republican Party will \u200drestore greater federal oversight in the \u200ccapital to enhance \u200blaw and order. At campaign\u200c rallies, Trump\u200b described the current state of D.C. \u200das risky for visitors, raising concerns about \u2063safety while sightseeing at major \u200clandmarks. He promised a thorough beautification\u2064 campaign,\u200c which includes removing graffiti from monuments\u200b and repairing deteriorating infrastructure. Recent discussions with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser indicate Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-meet-with-u-k-prime-minister-boris-johnson\/\" title=\"Lawmakers meet with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson\">taking practical steps<\/a>\u2064 to \u2064implement his vision for the city.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump plans for friendly revamp of DC in second term<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1937203\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has made revitalizing and cleaning up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Washington, D.C.\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, a key part of his plan for his second term, as he hopes to effect change more successfully in the capital than in his first term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump railed against D.C.&rsquo;s problems in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-asks-new-hampshire-to-find-the-courage-to-take-out-trump-on-eve-of-primary-2\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley urges New Hampshire to bravely challenge Trump before primary\">campaign rallies leading<\/a> up to the election, specifically hitting on crime, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/2911036\/capital-punishment-dc-crime-stats-in-early-2024-could-be-on-track-to-rebound-after-deadly-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"spiked\">spiked<\/a> in the city in 2023. He also included a vow that the GOP will &ldquo;reassert greater Federal Control over Washington, DC to restore Law and Order in our Capital City, and ensure Federal Buildings and Monuments are well-maintained&rdquo; in the 2024 Republican Party platform<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right now, if you leave Florida &ndash; &lsquo;oh, let&rsquo;s go, darling, let&rsquo;s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let&rsquo;s look at the Washington Monument, let&rsquo;s go and look at some of the beautiful scenes,&rsquo; and you end up getting shot, mugged, raped,&rdquo; Trump said at a Florida rally in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re gonna take over our capital, and we&rsquo;re gonna run it tough and smart. And we&rsquo;re gonna beautify it, we&rsquo;re gonna get all the graffiti off the marble, we&rsquo;re gonna fix the roads, and the median &mdash; which are falling down all over the streets,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump met with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser last month, and according to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, one of the points he brought up was the graffiti he saw when he visited the city in 2023. He told the mayor he was intent on taking action to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Bowser, who has publicly said she is willing to work with Trump, told the president-elect about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/2024-dc-violent-crime-rate-decrease-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">lower crime figures<\/a> for 2024 and her ability to produce balanced budgets, according to the report. The Justice Department reported in August that 2024 was set to see the lowest crime numbers in 20 years, with rates of violent crime down 35%.<\/p>\n<p>Where Trump and local officials agree is on the desire to get federal workers back into office. Since workers went remote during the COVID-19 pandemic, in<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">-person work hasn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t rebounded, and the downtown economy has taken a massive hit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We strongly support return to office efforts for federal workers. Their presence is vital for D.C.&rsquo;s economy and provides essential support for small businesses that have been hit hard by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thursday-afternoon-update-biden-releases-merchant-of-death-nantucket-goes-topless-new-york-times-goes-on-strike\/\" title=\"Thursday Afternoon Update: Biden Releases \u2018Merchant Of Death,\u2019 Nantucket Goes Topless, New York Times Goes On Strike\">remote work policies<\/a>. Undoubtedly, this will be a benefit to both the vibrancy of our nation&rsquo;s capital and the American people as a whole,&rdquo; Bowser said in December.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s incoming administration has already outlined plans to return workers to offices, which have largely sat vacant since 2020. For offices that will stay empty, the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3287834\/bowser-turn-empty-offices-into-business-boom-dc-tax-freeze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">launched<\/a> an Office to Anything initiative to redevelop those buildings.<\/p>\n<p>While the D.C. local government is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3253800\/dc-leaders-split-fight-trump-find-common-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"looking\">looking<\/a> to work more cooperatively with the incoming Trump administration, some Trump allies have promised more intervention in the city&rsquo;s activities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Washington is going to get an onslaught like it&rsquo;s never seen before,&rdquo; Trump ally&nbsp;Steve Bannon told the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s much more of a concerted punch than before. Everything is going to be intense at a level people are not accustomed to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One sign of Trump&rsquo;s return came Wednesday when the D.C. Metro began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3285178\/trump-dc-metro-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"distributing\">distributing<\/a> special inauguration commemorative SmarTrip cards at select locations, featuring Trump&rsquo;s picture and noting him as the 45th and 47th president.<\/p>\n<p>While most D.C. council members are not expected to attend Trump&rsquo;s inauguration, Bowser said she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3280102\/dc-million-dollar-inauguration-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">will<\/a> as she prepares for four years under a Trump-led federal government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1937203\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1937203\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump aims to revitalize D.C. in his second term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2391100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/AP24249637243634-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[48606,5894,32187,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2391099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dc-revamp","tag-politics","tag-second-term","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/AP24249637243634-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391103,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391099\/revisions\/2391103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}