Fear and confusion are spreading within Washington, DC’s homeless population at the start of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on encampments.

Using bulldozers and garbage trucks, authorities began tearing down homeless encampments as Trump's crackdown on the nation's capital ramped up.

Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents were packing their belongings Thursday before expected sweeps to clear out remaining encampments around the nation's capital, part of President Donald Trump's federal takeover of policing in the city.

This time around, Bowser took a different tact from the start. She flew to Florida to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after he won the election and has worked to avoid conflict and downplay points of contention, including tearing up the “Black Lives Matter” letters after he returned to Washington in response to pressure from Republicans in Congress.

Democratic Washington, D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has left the district for Martha’s Vineyard as President Donald Trump deploys the National Guard to restore law and order in the nation’s capital, Scripps News reported.

The president has suggested he could bring the military to Democrat-controlled cities like New York City, Chicago, Baltimore and Oakland next.

The D.C. National Guard has deployed in D.C.’s streets Tuesday night, according to the White House, a day after President Donald Trump federalized the D.C. police force. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said about 850 officers and agents surged into Washington on Monday night,

The president has repeatedly claimed that crime has reached alarming levels in D.C. and other major cities – but data show the opposite. Crime in D.C. has seen a downturn since

President Trump said he will seek 'long-term' federal control of the D.C. police force during his remarks at the Kennedy Center.

Washington Examiner journalist Anna Giaritelli shares how a 2020 sexual assault in Washington, D.C., changed her life and career after her attacker was repeatedly released.

President Donald Trump pledged Thursday that “phony” Washington crime data would be investigated amid his federal takeover of the local police. “They are under investigation right now,” Trump said from the Oval Office.