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This will certainly lead to downturn in trade volumes by late September because inventories for holiday season will already be in hand

Import cargo volume at nation's major container ports is expected to end 2025 5.6% below 2024 volume

Unlike a state’s governor the District of Columbia does not have control over its National Guard giving the president broad leeway to deploy those troops

He planned an announcement for Monday morning to unveil his plan to fight crime in the city

They would support law enforcement officials or free them up to carry out patrol duties

Mr Trump had not approved any official deployment orders as of early Monday

National Guard troops would probably not have arrest authorities

The troop activation in Washington comes after the deployment this summer of nearly 5000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles

The number of murders is down 34 percent from the first seven months of 2023

President Trump was just talking about a carjacking incident

It’s also interesting to note Trump’s language here as he’s describing some residents of American cities as caravans of mass youth

Trump says the murder rate in Washington is higher than some of the worst places in the world

The number of carjackings in the District of Columbia did spike in 2023 but have declined significantly over the past 18 months

President Trump says I’m going to Russia on Friday

This move is in line with Trump’s tendency to assign his cabinet members multiple jobs

This news conference has as much to do with politics as it does the real world issue of crime and law enforcement

President Trump is using it to talk about transgender athletes and his policies at the southern border trying to somehow connect it all back to what he wants to do with the Distric of Columbia police department

President Trump says 800 National Guard troops will be stationed in Washington and says he will add more if necessary

He did not say how many

The city has struggled in recent years with a shelter system pushed to capacity