True or False: President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to invoke Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act on August 11, 2025.

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On August 11, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order "Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia," invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act (Public Law 93-198) to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control. This was the first time any president invoked Section 740 to commandeer D.C.'s local police force. Prior federal interventions in Washington, D.C.—including during the Civil War, the 1932 Bonus Army protests, and the 1968 riots—involved federal troops supporting or supplementing local authorities, not a statutory takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department itself.

True or False: President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to invoke Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act on August 11, 2025.

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