{"id":12249,"date":"2025-08-12T12:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-steps-up-clash-with-dc-democratic-led-cities\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:20:48","slug":"trump-steps-up-clash-with-dc-democratic-led-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-steps-up-clash-with-dc-democratic-led-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump steps up clash with DC, Democratic-led cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As President Trump on Monday stepped up his fight with the District of Columbia, he signaled he could try to expand his efforts to exert federal control to other Democratic-led cities, citing what he described as out of control crime and squalor. Trump announced during a press conference at the White House that he was declaring a public safety emergency in the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5447093-trump-dc-democratic-cities-chicago\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Trump on Monday stepped up his fight with the District of Columbia, he signaled he could try to expand his efforts to exert federal control to other Democratic-led cities, citing what he described as out of control crime and squalor. Trump announced during a press conference at the White House that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}