Trump admin suggests displaced D.C. homeless people go to shelters, treatment or jail

[Jilly_in_VA]

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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump urged homeless people living in Washington, D.C., to move out “IMMEDIATELY” and claimed “we will give you places to stay" that are "FAR" from the nation's capital.

On Monday, he announced that he was federalizing Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department and deploying the National Guard, saying the federal government will be “removing homeless encampments from all over our parks” in order to “rescue" Washington "from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.”

There were “many places” homeless people could go, Trump continued.

As of Tuesday, the administration had provided few details on how that would work, instead suggesting that displaced homeless people take advantage of existing services or face fines or jail time.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-dc-homeless-people-places-stay-jail-shelters-rcna224527

Like there is ROOM in any of those places? Please, b****h!

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Comparing the homeless problem to a game of "whack a mole." How degrading.

Well gee it’s not like they can just pick up and move away anywhere they want - no car, no money, no job, kind of limits a person’s options. But of course Trump and his sycophants are tone deaf and heartless.