{"id":51,"date":"2026-10-07T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/?p=51"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:52:21","slug":"abc-news-breaks-into-live-coverage-with-major-trump-update-weve-just-been-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"ABC News Breaks Into Live Coverage With Major Trump Update: We\u2019ve Just Been Informed\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">The Trump administration has widened the federal law-enforcement footprint in Washington, D.C., arguing that the capital needed a tougher answer to violent crime. Officials have put federal agencies into a larger operational role: pairing agents with Metropolitan Police, tightening enforcement of firearms and quality-of-life offenses, and coordinating the work through the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force. The stated aims are fewer violent crimes, more prosecutions, and a stronger sense of public order in a city over which Congress already holds unusual constitutional power.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Some residents say they feel safer. They cite more visible patrols, fewer carjackings in their neighborhoods, and a belief that serious offenders are being taken off the street. Supporters call the surge overdue. They argue that federal agencies have a legitimate interest in protecting the seat of government and that Justice Department figures show sharp year-over-year drops in homicides, robberies, and vehicle thefts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has widened the federal law-enforcement footprint in Washington, D.C., arguing that the capital needed a tougher answer to violent crime. Officials have put federal agencies into a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usbrief.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}