{"id":12299,"date":"2025-08-13T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-looks-to-extend-dc-police-takeover-beyond-30-days\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:21:21","slug":"trump-looks-to-extend-dc-police-takeover-beyond-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-looks-to-extend-dc-police-takeover-beyond-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump looks to extend DC police takeover beyond 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday said he&#8217;ll seek &#8220;long-term extensions&#8221; from Congress to extend his federal takeover of the Washington police amid his crackdown on crime in the nation&rsquo;s capital, declining to rule out the possibility of a national emergency. &ldquo;Well, if it&rsquo;s a national emergency, we can do it without Congress,&rdquo; Trump said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5450558-trump-dc-police-takeover-extension\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday said he&#8217;ll seek &#8220;long-term extensions&#8221; from Congress to extend his federal takeover of the Washington police amid his crackdown on crime in the nation&rsquo;s capital, declining to rule out the possibility of a national emergency. &ldquo;Well, if it&rsquo;s a national emergency, we can do it without Congress,&rdquo; Trump said&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12299","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\/12299","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=12299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}