助理司法部长科林·麦克唐纳表示，该议会无权要求州长撤回部署在华盛顿的国民警卫队队员
2026年8月13日 美国东部时间12:39 / 福克斯新闻频道
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去年夏天在华盛顿遭杀害的国会山实习生的塔玛拉·亚奇姆表示，国民警卫队部署“效果显著”，华盛顿特区凶杀率大幅下降。
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美国司法部抨击华盛顿特区议会“出于政治动机的要求”和“无力的作秀”，此前该议会成员致信各州州长，要求他们召回部署在首都的国民警卫队队员。
此事曝出之际，联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔本周告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“华盛顿特区凶杀率较去年下降了惊人的44%”。去年唐纳德·特朗普政府启动了“安全与美好”华盛顿倡议，增加联邦执法力量，部署数百名联邦探员和国民警卫队队员打击犯罪。
“我并不意外，你们近期致州长的关于国民警卫队的信函，刻意无视自2025年8月11日以来我国首都在公共安全方面取得的历史性进展，”助理司法部长科林·麦克唐纳在致华盛顿特区议会的信函中写道。“但我感到惊讶和痛心的是，你们竟然对选民如此冷漠——而非展现同情与关怀。得益于国民警卫队和华盛顿特区‘安全与美好’专项工作组的努力，如今市民生活在暴力和恐惧都大幅减少的城市中。”
“我明确说明，你们议会无权要求州长撤回其身着制服、为国服役的男女军人。你们这封出于政治动机的信函不过是无力的作秀，连写它的纸张都不值，无论你们如何说辞，华盛顿特区都变得更加安全。”麦克唐纳补充道，“因为你们拒绝说出专项工作组挽救生命的工作真相，真相自会发声。”
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2026年8月10日周一，在华盛顿哥伦比亚高地地铁站，由于电梯停运，阿肯色州国民警卫队队员推着坐轮椅的老年女性下楼梯前往站台，随后继续巡逻。华盛顿特区议会因要求州长撤回部署在华盛顿的国民警卫队队员而遭到抨击。（罗德·兰姆基/美联社）
美国司法部在X平台上发文称：“本司法部不会容忍这些出于政治动机的要求。”
“我们将继续与@总统和‘让华盛顿更安全美好’专项工作组站在一起，为社区——以及来自全美各地和世界各地的游客——带来历史性的安全成果，”该帖补充道。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系特区议会成员的代表置评。
据特区议会无任所议员罗伯特·怀特的办公室透露，这些由特区议会成员联名签署的信函于7月底被寄往阿拉巴马州、阿拉斯加州、阿肯色州、佛罗里达州、佐治亚州、夏威夷州、爱达荷州、印第安纳州、路易斯安那州、密西西比州、蒙大拿州、内布拉斯加州、内华达州、北卡罗来纳州、俄克拉荷马州、波多黎各、南卡罗来纳州、田纳西州、西弗吉尼亚州和怀俄明州的州长。
每封信的开头都写道：“我们作为代表哥伦比亚特区的民选官员，谨此恭请你们在2026年9月1日前撤回所有部署到特区的部队。”
特朗普团队称联邦打击犯罪行动奏效，华盛顿特区凶杀率大幅逆转
2026年8月11日，即特朗普总统启动国民警卫队的一周年纪念日，“自由特区”抗议者集会反对国民警卫队继续驻扎华盛顿，国民警卫队队员在一旁巡逻。（杰奎琳·马丁/美联社）
“目前约有5148名警卫队员部署在特区，其依据是需要超强的军事力量来保障公共安全。但对此次部署的分析发现，自2025年8月以来，仅财产犯罪有小幅下降，未发现国民警卫队的部署对暴力犯罪有可衡量的减少作用，”信函继续写道。
“然而，据无党派的国会预算办公室数据，此次部署每天耗费美国纳税人超过300万美元。如果继续维持这一部署，即便没有证据表明其能减少暴力犯罪，也将滥用纳税人资金——如果按当前扩大的规模持续数年，总耗资将达数十亿美元——同时也浪费了警卫队员的服役价值，”信函补充道，并称当前美国各州的家庭“都在为食品杂货、住房、医疗保健和其他生活必需品发愁”，在一场既未被特区居民也未被官员要求的、无效且无限期的部署上浪费资源，是对美国纳税人的不尊重。
信函最后写道：“我们认识到，美国250周年纪念活动给特区带来了重大的公共安全和后勤挑战，需要多个司法管辖区协调配合。我们感谢在此异常繁忙的时期驻扎特区、支持首都的警卫队员。一旦主要活动相关的需求在2026年9月1日结束，我们恭请他们获准返回家中，与家人团聚、回归工作岗位和社区，而非继续被无限期部署到一项成本高昂且未证明对暴力犯罪有可衡量影响的任务中。”
但麦克唐纳在信函中表示：“得益于国民警卫队部队的勇敢和坚定支持，专项工作组已开展数千次逮捕行动，找到多名走失儿童，并从城市街道上收缴了大量非法枪支”，国民警卫队“还在无数次事件中亲自介入多起袭击，并提供医疗援助，包括多次为遇险公民注射救命的纳洛酮”。
2025年8月30日，国民警卫队队员在华盛顿特区国家广场巡逻。麦克唐纳称，警卫队员多次为遇险公民注射救命的纳洛酮。（安德鲁·莱登/盖蒂图片社）
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“当你们将这些男女军人污蔑为‘外部军事力量’时，我将他们视为真正的美国英雄，”他还说道。“你们应当撤回这些信函，并将剩余的公职时间用于修正华盛顿特区的法律，确保罪犯受到惩罚、公众得到保护——而非反其道而行之。”
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Justice Department slams ‘politically motivated demands’ of DC Council asking govs to remove National Guard
Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said the council has no power to demand governors remove troops from DC
August 13, 2026 12:39pm EDT / Fox News
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The Justice Department slammed the D.C. Council for its “politically motivated demands” and “impotent theatrics” after its members sent letters to governors asking them to recall their National Guard troops from the nation’s capital.
The development comes as FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital this week that “homicides in D.C. are down an incredible 44% from last year” when President Donald Trump’s administration launched the Safe and Beautiful initiative in Washington, D.C., which increased the federal law enforcement presence and deployed hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops to combat crime.
“I am not surprised that your recent letter to state governors regarding the National Guard feigns ignorance of the historic public safety strides made in our Nation’s capital since August 11, 2025,” Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald wrote in a letter addressed to the D.C. Council. “I am surprised and saddened, however, that you would show such callousness — instead of compassion and care — toward your constituents, who now live in a city with far less violence and fear thanks to the National Guard and the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force.”
“Let me be clear, your council has no power to demand that governors remove their brave men and women from serving in uniform in our Nation’s capital. Your politically-motivated letter is impotent theatrics not worth the paper it’s written on, and D.C. is a much safer place no matter what you say,” McDonald added. “Because you refuse to speak the truth about the life-preserving work of the Task Force, the truth will speak for itself.”
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FILE – Members of the Arkansas National Guard continue their patrol after carrying an elderly woman in a wheelchair down the steps to the train platform due to an out-of-service elevator at the Columbia Heights metro station on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in Washington. The D.C. Council came under fire after requesting governors remove their National Guard troops from Washington, D.C.(Rod Lamkey/AP)
The Justice Department said in a message on X that “This Department of Justice will not stand for these politically motivated demands.”
“We will continue standing with @POTUS and the Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force to deliver historic results for the community — and for visitors from across the country and around the world to enjoy,” it added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to representatives of D.C. Council members for comment.
The letters, co-signed by the D.C. Council members, were sent to the governors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming in late July, according to the office of Councilmember At-Large Robert White.
Each letter opened the same, saying, “We write as elected officials representing the District of Columbia to respectfully request that you withdraw all troops currently deployed to the District by September 1, 2026.”
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Members of the National Guard walk on patrol as Free DC protesters rally against the continued National Guard presence in Washington on the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s emergency declaration activating the Guard, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026.(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
“There are approximately 5,148 Guard personnel currently deployed to the District under the premise that an extraordinary military presence was necessary to address public safety. Yet analysis of the deployment has found only a modest decrease in property crime and no measurable reduction in violent crime attributable to the Guard’s presence since August 2025,” the letters continue.
“The deployment has, however, cost American taxpayers more than $3 million per day, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Continuing this deployment despite the absence of a demonstrated violent-crime benefit would misuse both taxpayer dollars — in the billions, if maintained for years at its expanded scale — and the service of the Guard member themselves,” the letters add, claiming that at a time where families in each of the states “and across the country are struggling with the cost of groceries, housing, health care, and other necessities, wasting those resources on an ineffective, indefinite deployment that neither District residents nor officials asked for is disrespectful to American taxpayers.”
The letters conclude by saying that: “We recognize that the America 250 events present significant public safety and logistical challenges for the District and have required coordination across multiple jurisdictions. We are grateful to the Guard members who have been present to support the nation’s capital during this exceptionally busy period. Once the principal event-related needs conclude on September 1, 2026, we respectfully ask that they be permitted to return home to their families, careers and communities, rather than remain indefinitely assigned to a costly mission that has not demonstrated a measurable impact on violent crime.”
However, McDonald said in his letter “Thanks to courageous and steadfast support from National Guard units, Task Force members have conducted thousands of arrests, located lost and missing children, and taken substantial numbers of illegal firearms off the city’s streets” and that the National Guard “has personally intervened in numerous assaults and provided medical aid on innumerable occasions, including repeatedly administering life-saving NARCAN to citizens in peril.”
FILE – National Guard members patrol the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Aug. 30, 2025. McDonald said Guard members repeatedly administered life-saving NARCAN to citizens in distress.(Andrew Leyden/Getty)
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“While you slander these men and women as ‘outside military forces,’ I refer to them as true American heroes,” he also said. “You should withdraw your letters and dedicate your remaining time in public service to correcting D.C.’s laws to ensure criminals are punished and the public is protected — not the other way around.”
Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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