President Trump Signs Executive Order to Eliminate Homelessness on the Streets of D.C.

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On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to end homelessness in public areas and place people who suffer from addiction or mental illness in long-term care. For a long time, Trump has called tent encampments in Washington, D.C., a national disgrace.

According to the presidential order, the Biden administration permitted "endemic vagrancy," with over 274,000 people apparently spending every night on the streets in the previous year. Trump's order declares many existing services for the homeless to be unproductive and reallocates government funds to promote institutional treatment and civil commitment. Under the new program, funding priority will go to cities that already monitor drug use and sexual offenders and enforce anti-camping legislation.

President Trump signed a comprehensive executive order on Thursday that calls for the eviction of homeless people from American streets, particularly those who are mentally ill or addicted to drugs. Under what it refers to as "humane civil commitment," the directive calls on states and local governments to move homeless people into treatment centers and "long-term institutional settings."

The directive denounces prior spending as wasteful and mentions an estimated 274,000 people who slept outside every night under President Biden's administration. The decree claims that decades of spending have not done anything to address the underlying reasons or restore public safety, stating that "the overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health disorder, or both."

"President Trump is fulfilling his pledge to Make America Safe Again and end homelessness across America," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that accompanied the order. The Trump Administration will guarantee that Americans feel safe in their neighborhoods and that those who are struggling with addiction or mental health issues can receive the assistance they require by clearing out vagrant criminals from our streets and rerouting funds toward substance abuse programs.

The decision coincides with an important shift in government homelessness policy, moving away from so-called "housing first" models and toward more aggressive institutional treatment and law enforcement-based measures, even though the precise funding levels have not yet been disclosed. In certain situations, the plan calls for "assisted outpatient treatment," but it is apparent that long-term imprisonment will play a major role.

Jurisdictions that currently implement anti-camping, anti-loitering, and enforcement tactics against open drug use would receive priority for new federal subsidies. Additionally, the ordinance promotes the tracking of sexual offenders in and around homeless camps.

Homelessness in the nation's capital has frustrated Trump since his first term. Tent towns dotted the routes his motorcade would take between the White House and his golf resort in Northern Virginia, frequently infuriating him. Only a few blocks from the White House, one encampment in McPherson Square gained notoriety for its drug usage, public urination, and unpredictable conduct. The fact that foreign dignitaries might see such things in private infuriated Trump.

Although detractors pointed out that the measures frequently just temporarily relocated the camps, the mayor's office occasionally responded to such complaints by carrying out regular encampment sweeps.

The order gives Trump's new policy more legal support by upholding local governments' authority to punish or detain homeless people for camping on public property, as established by the Supreme Court's decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson.

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