Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025

The bill would direct the Secretary of the Interior to create, within 30 days of enactment, a program to coordinate cleanup and restoration of federal and D.C. facilities, monuments, parks, sidewalks, roads, and transit systems, including removing graffiti and restoring damaged or removed monuments and statues. It would also establish a District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Commission made up of representatives from federal law enforcement agencies, three U.S. Attorney's offices, and the D.C. mayor's office, chaired by a senior White House official. The Commission would recommend and review policies to maximize federal immigration enforcement in D.C., monitor the city's sanctuary-city status, help accredit D.C.'s forensic crime lab, support Metropolitan Police recruitment and retention, speed concealed-carry processing, review pretrial detention policy, and expand federal and local law enforcement presence at national landmarks. Both the cleanup program and the Commission would terminate on January 2, 2029, and both entities must report periodically to congressional committees.

Residents and visitors of Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Police Department; the D.C. mayor's office; federal agencies including Interior, Homeland Security, Transportation, the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and ATF; U.S. Attorney's offices for D.C., Maryland, and Eastern Virginia; the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; and immigrants in D.C. affected by enforcement priorities.

The bill would give the federal government a more direct, coordinated role in D.C.'s policing, immigration enforcement, and physical upkeep, areas usually handled by local government. Supporters frame it as improving safety and appearance in the capital; the immigration-enforcement and sanctuary-city monitoring provisions could shift enforcement priorities and increase federal presence in daily D.C. life.

The Secretary of the Interior would stand up the beautification program in consultation with the Attorney General, Transportation Secretary, D.C. Mayor, U.S. Attorney for D.C., and General Services Administrator, then report annually to House and Senate committees. Separately, designated federal agencies and D.C.'s mayor's office would each name a Commission representative, and the President would appoint a White House official as Chair, who sets meeting schedules, drafts a charter for Congress, and can add new member entities. The Commission would issue recommendations and reports to oversight committees but has no independent enforcement authority; both structures dissolve automatically on January 2, 2029.