https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/11/trump-dc-fbi-national-guard-deployment/

Federal law enforcement officers have begun approaching homeless campsites and policing graffiti. Large shifts of National Guard troops were expected by the end of the week.

Even before President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would take over D.C. policing, city residents started to feel it.

Social media posts showed FBI officers on the streets over the weekend in areas known for nightlife, including the U Street corridor and the Navy Yard neighborhood, where a curfew preventing teens from gathering in big groups has been in place.

Trump promised much more to come. He said his initiative would inject “an overwhelming presence” into D.C., with seven federal agencies expanding their reach into city life. The Drug Enforcement Administration began sending agents to homeless campsites. The U.S. Park Police was tasked with addressing graffiti in federal parks. National Guard troops were expected to staff intersections and work in shifts of 200 starting later this week. Trump said that more than 500 federal agents were deployed last week and that the effort will eventually be supplemented by an additional 800 troops from the D.C. National Guard.

On Monday morning, Al said, outreach workers from the city arrived to tell him he had to be out of the area by Wednesday.

“Then they gave me a packet of pretzel Goldfish,” he said.

Aware of Trump’s push to remove the unsheltered from D.C. streets, Al had a simple response: “And go where?”