Looking to solidify the progress made by President Donald Trump ’s successful surge of federal law enforcement officers into Washington , House Republicans passed two crime bills this week that, if passed by the Senate and signed into law by Trump, would undo much of the damage caused by soft-on-crime Democrats in the District of Columbia over the last decade.

Metropolitan Police Department figures show that, year over year, violent crime has been cut in half during Trump’s surge, with burglaries down 48% and car thefts down 36%. While it is true that crime was trending down before the Trump surge, crime was still far too high in Washington, which had a murder rate three times that of New York.

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