D.C. work crews began clearing homeless encampments Thursday morning near the E Street Expressway, hours after President Donald Trump warned Mayor Muriel E. Bowser in a post on Truth Social that she must either clear the “unsightly” tents or federal officials “will be forced to do it for her.”

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Donald Trump’s insistence that the city needs to clean up homeless encampments was not an order. Trump told Bowser that she must clean up homeless encampments outside of the State Department and near the White House or they would be “forced to do it for her” in a

If she is not capable of doing so, we will be forced to do it for her! Washington, D.C. must become CLEAN and SAFE!”