Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill, introduced by Mr. McGuire, would create a new plan to clean up and secure the nation's capital. It focuses on two main areas: making the city look better by removing graffiti and fixing monuments, and creating a new commission to change how the city handles crime and immigration.
• The Department of the Interior would lead a project to keep federal and local parks, sidewalks, and transit systems clean. This includes restoring statues or markers that have been damaged or defaced. They would also work with private businesses to help with these cleanup efforts through early 2029.
• A new commission would be formed to put more police officers in popular areas like the National Mall, Union Station, and local parks. It would look for ways to help the local police department hire more officers and provide them with more federal resources and expertise to reduce crime.
• The plan calls for stricter enforcement of federal immigration laws in D.C., including efforts to find and deport people who are in the country illegally. It also aims to make it faster and cheaper for people to get licenses to carry concealed weapons and would push for keeping more criminal defendants in jail while they wait for trial.
• The commission would work to stop people from skipping fares on buses and trains and help the city's crime lab get fully approved to do its work. These efforts are designed to improve public safety and make the city's legal system work more efficiently.