Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Donald Trump’s insistence that the city needs to clean up homeless encampments was not an order. Trump told Bowser that she must clean up homeless encampments outside of the State Department and near the White House or they would be “forced to do it for her” in a

D.C. has established a timetable to clear about a dozen homeless encampments across the city after a push from President Donald Trump.

D.C. work crews began clearing homeless encampments Thursday morning near the E Street Expressway, hours after President Donald Trump warned Mayor Muriel E. Bowser in a post on Truth Social that she must either clear the “unsightly” tents or federal officials “will be forced to do it for her.”