Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser admitted on Wednesday that crime in the district has plummeted since President Donald Trump’s federal takeover.

Bowser, a Democrat, touted the cratering crime rates and said she “greatly appreciates” the resources that have been surged into the city since Trump’s early August emergency declaration. She signaled that she would like to continue to work with the federal government to police the city after Trump’s emergency declaration times out at the end of 30 days.

“This is what we think, in just a couple of weeks of experience, has worked: having more federal law enforcement officers on the street. We think having more stops that got to illegal guns has helped. We think that there’s more accountability in the system, or at least perceived accountability in the system that is driving down illegal behavior,” said Bowser at a press conference.

“We know that we have had fewer gun crimes, fewer homicides, and we have experienced an Extreme reduction in carjackings,” she continued.

Bowser went on to tout the area where she suggested Trump’s federal takeover has made the most progress: carjackings.

“The most significant thing that we are highlighting today is the area of crime that was most troubling for us in 2023,” she said. Carjackings during the time that Trump has marshaled federal law enforcement to D.C., carjackings in the district have declined 87% from the same period of time last year, according to the mayor

“We know that when carjackings go down, when the use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer. So this surge has been important to us,” said Bowser.

The mayor criticized the surge for creating “a break in trust” between law enforcement and the local D.C. community. She said that immigration officers in particular have been unnecessary and a waste of resources to police the city.

Since Trump’s federal takeover, more than 1,000 people have been arrested. Hundreds of those arrested are illegal immigrants, and some have been identified as MS-13 or Tren de Aragua gang members.

Law enforcement has seized over 100 firearms and cleared away dozens of homeless encampments. Trump has surged federal resources into the nation’s capital to make the city safe and beautiful, as well.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that he was putting an end to a program that had for nearly ten years allowed Chinese coders access to Department of Defense cloud systems.

Hegseth shared a video in which he described the “Digital Escorts” program — implemented under former President Barack Obama — under which Microsoft employed Chinese coders to “support sensitive DOD cloud systems” under the supervision of American contractors.

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The use of Chinese Nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments is over. pic.twitter.com/jZdcHwKho2

— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) August 27, 2025

“Last month the Department of Defense was made aware of an Obama-Biden era legacy program called Digital Escorts,” Hegseth began. “For nearly a decade, Microsoft has used Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to support sensitive DOD cloud systems. The program was designed to comply with contracting rules but it exposed the department to unacceptable risk.”

“I mean, if you’re thinking ‘America First,’ and common sense, this doesn’t pass either of those tests,” Hegseth continued. “So I initiated an immediate review of this vulnerability and I want to report our initial findings.”

Hegseth went on to explain that his review had determined that any benefits were not worth the potential risk of allowing Chinese nationals to have that kind of access to sensitive information, especially information pertaining to Defense Department.

“The use of Chinese Nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments? It’s over,” he declared. “We’ve issued a formal letter of concern to Microsoft documenting this breach of trust, and we’re requiring a third party audit of Microsoft’s Digital Escort program — including the code and the submissions by Chinese nationals.”

Hegseth also announced a separate investigation into the program and into all of the Chinese nationals who had been part of it: “Did they put anything in the code that we didn’t know about? We’re going to find out.”

“It blows my mind that I’m even saying these things, it’s such common sense,” Hegseth said as he once again reiterated his intent to remove all Chinese employees from access to DOD information. “We expect vendors doing business with the Department of Defense to put U.S. national security ahead of profit maximization … This never should have happened in the first place.”