President Donald Trump could threaten to withhold federal funding for Washington, D.C., if Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city council fail to support the president’s efforts to crack down on local crime, according to some Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Trump on Monday said he was putting Washington’s police department under federal control and ordering the National Guard to deploy to the nation’s capital to combat what he said is a wave of lawlessness.

Bowser on Tuesday said D.C. must “protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our Home Rule, and get to the other side of this guy, and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push,” CNN reported.

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