Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful

Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025

Making the District of Columbia Safe and
Beautiful

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. As the Federal capital city,
Washington, D.C., is the only city that belongs to all
Americans and that all Americans can claim as theirs.
As the capital city of the greatest Nation in the
history of the world, it should showcase beautiful,
clean, and safe public spaces.

America's capital must be a place in which residents,
commuters, and tourists feel safe at all hours,
including on public transit. Its highways, boulevards,
and parks should be clean, well-kept, and pleasant. Its
monuments, museums, and buildings should reflect and
inspire awe and appreciation for our Nation's strength,
greatness, and heritage. Our citizens deserve nothing
less.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States
to make the District of Columbia safe, beautiful, and
prosperous by preventing crime, punishing criminals,
preserving order, protecting our revered American
monuments, and promoting beautification and the
preservation of our history and heritage.

Sec. 3. Making the District of Columbia Safe by
Fighting Crime. (a) My Administration shall work
closely with local officials to share information,
develop joint priorities, and maximize resources to
make the District of Columbia safe. Such coordination
shall occur through the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task
Force (Task Force), which is hereby established by this
order. The Task Force shall be chaired by the Assistant
to the President and Homeland Security Advisor or his
designee, and shall otherwise include representatives
from the following departments, agencies, or
components, selected as such department, agency, or
component determines:

(i) the Department of the Interior;

(ii) the Department of Transportation;

(iii) the Department of Homeland Security;

(iv) the Federal Bureau of Investigation;

(v) the United States Marshals Service;

(vi) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives;

(vii) the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia;

(viii) the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland;
and

(ix) the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of
Virginia.

The Chairman of the Task Force may also select other
departments, agencies, or components to participate as
he deems necessary. Representatives of such other
departments, agencies, or components shall be selected
as such department, agency, or component determines.

    (b) The Task Force may, to the extent permitted by
law, request operational assistance from and coordinate
with the Metropolitan Police Department of the District
of Columbia (MPD), Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority, United States Park Police, Amtrak Police,
and other Federal and local officials as appropriate.
    (c) The Task Force shall coordinate to ensure
effective Federal participation in the following tasks:

(i) directing maximum enforcement of Federal immigration law and
redirecting available Federal, State, or local law enforcement resources to
apprehend and deport illegal aliens in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan
area;

(ii) monitoring the District of Columbia's sanctuary-city status and
compliance with the enforcement of Federal immigration law;

(iii) providing assistance to facilitate the prompt and complete
accreditation of the District of Columbia's forensic crime laboratory;

(iv) in collaboration with its leadership and union, providing MPD with
assistance to facilitate the recruitment, retention, and capabilities of
its police officers and to facilitate work with Federal personnel,
resources, and expertise to reduce crime;

(v) collaborating with appropriate local government entities to provide
assistance to increase the speed and lower the cost of processing concealed
carry license requests in the District of Columbia;

(vi) reviewing and, as appropriate, revising Federal prosecutorial policies
on seeking pretrial detention of criminal defendants to ensure that
individuals who pose a genuine threat to public safety are detained to the
maximum extent permitted by law;

(vii) collaborating with appropriate local government entities to provide
assistance to end fare evasion and other crime within the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system; and

(viii) deploying a more robust Federal law enforcement presence and
coordinating with local law enforcement to facilitate the deployment of a
more robust local law enforcement presence as appropriate in areas in or
about the District of Columbia, including in such areas as the National
Mall and Memorial Parks, museums, monuments, Lafayette Park, Union Station,
Rock Creek Park, Anacostia Park, the George Washington Memorial Parkway,
the Suitland Parkway, and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, and ensuring
that all applicable quality of life, nuisance, and public-safety laws are
strictly enforced, such as those prohibiting assault, battery, larceny,
graffiti and other vandalism, unpermitted disturbances and demonstrations,
noise, trespassing, public intoxication, drug possession, sale, and use,
and traffic violations, including as prescribed by Executive Order 13933 of
June 26, 2020 (Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and
Combating Recent Criminal Violence), which was reinstated by Executive
Order 14189 of January 29, 2025 (Celebrating America's 250th Birthday).

    (d) The Task Force shall report to me as necessary
through the Assistant to the President and Homeland
Security Advisor regarding safety in the District of
Columbia, and the tasks set forth in subsection (c) of
this section. As part of this reporting, the Attorney
General, in consultation with the Task Force, shall
assess whether public-safety circumstances in the
District of Columbia require additional executive
action.

Sec. 4. Making the District of Columbia Beautiful. (a)
The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the
Attorney General, the Secretary of Transportation, the
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,
the Administrator of General Services, the National
Capital Planning Commission, and the heads of such
other executive departments or agencies and local
officials as the Secretary of the Interior deems
appropriate, shall develop and implement a program to
beautify and make safe and prosperous the District of
Columbia.

    (b) The program under subsection (a) of this
section shall include, at a minimum, the following
elements as appropriate and consistent with applicable
law:

(i) a coordinated beautification plan for Federal and local facilities,
monuments, land, parks, and roadways in and around the District of
Columbia;

(ii) restoration of Federal public monuments, memorials, statues, markers,
or similar properties that have been damaged or defaced, or inappropriately
removed or changed, in recent years;

(iii) removal of graffiti from commonly visited areas, with local
assistance;

(iv) proposals to ensure Federal buildings or lands adequately uplift and
beautify public spaces and generate in the citizenry pride in and respect
for our Nation;

(v) a coordinated Federal and local approach to ensure the cleanliness of
public spaces, sidewalks, parks, highways, roads, and transit systems in
and around the District of Columbia; and

(vi) the encouragement of private-sector participation in coordinated
beautification and clean-up efforts in the District of Columbia.

    (c) The Secretary of the Interior shall immediately
issue a directive to the National Park Service
requiring prompt removal and cleanup of all homeless or
vagrant encampments and graffiti on Federal land within
the District of Columbia subject to the National Park
Service's jurisdiction, to the maximum extent permitted
by law.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    March 27, 2025.