Vance pushes for crime crackdown at DC's Union Station

Just the News ^ | August 20, 2025 5:15pm | Misty Severi

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The National Guard troops are expected to stay in the city for 30 days, but the deployment could be extended if Trump and Congress deem it necessary. Trump can only authorize the deployment for 30 days without Congressional approval.

Vice President J.D. Vance and other Trump administration officials on Wednesday met with National Guard troops at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, which Vance claimed was because of the station's high crime rate.

President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the district last week, and deployed 800 D.C. National Guard troops to the capital to help patrol the city and reduce its crime rate. Although D.C. crime has decreased in recent years, at least statistically, the city still has one of the highest crime rates in the country. 

Vance told reporters at a Shake Shack in Union Station that he witnessed "violent vagrants" screaming at his children when they visited the station a couple of years ago, but that he believed it should be a place where families can go to restaurants or shopping.

“We have changed so much in nine days, and I thought it important to highlight how great of a space this could be, how easy it could be to actually enjoy something like Union Station if you just had politicians who stopped prioritizing violent criminals over public citizens who deserve public safety in their own communities,” Vance said, per CNN.

"I think Union Station is a great example of what's possible when you have the … willpower to bring law and order and common decency back to the public spaces of the United States of America," he added.

The visit comes the same day Washington, D.C. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser claimed the district does not need federal assistance to make residents feel safe,...

[Texas Eagle]

Trump cares too much about human life and safety to do what I am about to suggest but he should remove the troops after 30 days and let D.C. return to its chaotic ways just to prove a point.

Commence flaming.

[OpusatFR]

PLEASE. For those of us who love Union Station and loved the renovations and the whole atmosphere that was destroyed by Biden and the BLM rioters, restore the peace.

[Jeff Chandler]

The Rinos will block it.