in effect
This is Executive Order 14252, signed March 27, 2025, a presidential directive to federal agencies. It sets a policy of making Washington, D.C. “safe, beautiful, and prosperous,” and it creates a new coordinating body called the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force to carry that out. Because it is an executive order, it directs federal officials and does not by itself pass a law or bind private parties.
It establishes the Task Force, chaired by the President’s Homeland Security Advisor and including the Departments of the Interior, Transportation, and Homeland Security, the FBI, U.S. Marshals, ATF, and three U.S. Attorney’s Offices (D.C., Maryland, Eastern District of Virginia). The Task Force is directed to coordinate on specific jobs: maximizing federal immigration enforcement and deportations in the D.C. area, monitoring the city’s sanctuary-city status, helping accredit D.C.’s forensic crime lab, aiding police recruitment, speeding up concealed-carry permit processing, pushing for more pretrial detention of defendants deemed dangerous, curbing transit fare evasion, and increasing law-enforcement presence around monuments, parks, and transit hubs. Separately, the Secretary of the Interior must build a D.C. beautification program (monument restoration, graffiti and trash removal, cleanup coordination) and “immediately” order the National Park Service to remove homeless encampments and graffiti from federal parkland in D.C. The order sets no dollar amounts or firm deadlines beyond that “immediate” cleanup directive, states it must follow existing law and available funding, and creates no new legal rights anyone can sue to enforce.
The listed federal agencies gain new coordination duties, while D.C.’s local police, transit authority, and city government are asked to cooperate and share resources. D.C. residents, commuters, and tourists are the stated intended beneficiaries through added policing and cleanup. People directly touched include those subject to immigration enforcement, defendants facing possible pretrial detention, concealed-carry applicants, and homeless people living on federal park land in the District.