President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Monday ensuring “cashless bail” is eliminated for criminals arrested in the nation’s capital, a White House official confirmed to the Daily Caller.
The executive order directs the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force to ensure those arrested in Washington, D.C., are “held in federal custody to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, and to pursue Federal charges and pretrial detention for such arrestees whenever possible,” according to a fact sheet obtained by the Caller. If the city keeps its cashless bail policy in place, the executive order permits the administration to potentially punish D.C. via federal funding decisions or other methods. (RELATED: Trump Announces He Will Personally Patrol DC)
The president also is expected to sign an executive order Monday aimed at ending nationwide cashless bail policies, a fact sheet obtained by the Caller says.
Under the order, the attorney general (AG) must submit a list of states and local jurisdictions with cashless bail policies. The action then instructs the administration to “identify Federal funds currently provided to cashless bail jurisdictions that may be suspended or terminated,” the fact sheet writes.
U.S. President Donald Trump visits the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on August 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The third executive order the president plans to sign will direct the AG to prosecute those who desecrate and burn the American flag, according to a fact sheet obtained by the Caller.
‘The order directs the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security and the Attorney General to deny, prohibit, terminate, or revoke visas, residence permits, or naturalization proceedings, and other immigration benefits, or seek removal from the United States, wherever there has been an appropriate determination that flag desecration by foreign nationals permits the exercise of those remedies under applicable law,” the fact sheet reads.
Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C., in early August, and later deployed the National Guard around the city to crack down on the crisis. Since August 7th, more than 910 total arrests have been made, including 300 illegal aliens for various crimes, a White House official told the Caller. At least five known gang members, including MS-13 gang members, have been arrested as a part of the operation.
The president told reporters Friday that he is likely planning on cleaning up other cities, with his sights set on Chicago and potentially New York.
“Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we’ll straighten that one out probably next, that will be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough. And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“So I think Chicago will be our next and then we’ll help with New York, and we’re going to help with and I think, really, I think a lot of and a lot of these people that are, you see on television, they are including the people in this audience. They’ll say bad things about me, and then they’ll say, ‘thank God he’s here,’ because half of them got mugged, and they don’t want to get mugged again,” Trump continued.
