Posted on 08/16/2025 7:49:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Federal officials have cleared about 75 homeless camps around the nation’s capital under President Trump’s effort to clean up Washington, DC — and they’re not done yet.
United States Park Police have removed dozens of tents since the president penned the “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” executive order in March, the Department of the Interior told The Post Friday.
Authorities have also scrubbed up to 80 graffiti sites from Capitol Hill Parks as of Aug. 6, Interior officials said.
Interior leaders, led by Secretary Doug Burgum, are revising guidelines so there is a no-tolerance policy for illegal camping on National Park Service property in Washington, including no longer handing out warnings before vagrants are pushed off the public spaces.
The feds will also crack down on vandals who spray graffiti or cause damage to federal monuments, statues or buildings.
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They just prefer to live in the park than in a shelter. They camp out, get high, drunk, steal some shit and wander over to the methadone center and if they aren’t too nauseated drop by the free food cafeteria for a bite and then back to the park to hang out.
Gutzon Borglum - no relation.
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