Executive Order 14252

Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful

Signed March 27, 2025, printed at 90 FR 14559. 4 sections of substance, 1,369 words.

In plain English

This order is about the capital city. It sets up a task force on crime and on cleaning up public space.

Sec. 1. Purpose

As the Federal capital city, Washington, D.C., is the only city that belongs to all Americans and that all Americans can claim as theirs. As the capital city of the greatest Nation in the history of the world, it should showcase beautiful, clean, and safe public spaces. America's capital must be a place in which residents, commuters, and tourists feel safe at all hours, including on public transit. Its highways, boulevards, and parks should be clean, well-kept, and pleasant. Its monuments, museums, and buildings should reflect and inspire awe and appreciation for our Nation's strength, greatness, and heritage. Our citizens deserve nothing less.

In plain English

This sets out the case the order makes. It says the capital belongs to the whole country. It says its public spaces should be clean and safe. It says people should feel safe at any hour. That includes on public transit. It says parks and roads should be well kept. It says monuments should inspire pride.

Sec. 2. Policy

It is the policy of the United States to make the District of Columbia safe, beautiful, and prosperous by preventing crime, punishing criminals, preserving order, protecting our revered American monuments, and promoting beautification and the preservation of our history and heritage.

In plain English

This states the policy. The capital must be made safe. It must be made beautiful. It must be made prosperous. Crime must be prevented. Criminals must be punished. Order must be kept. Monuments must be protected. Beautification is a stated goal. So is preserving the city's history.

Sec. 3. Making the District of Columbia Safe by Fighting Crime

(a) My Administration shall work closely with local officials to share information, develop joint priorities, and maximize resources to make the District of Columbia safe. Such coordination shall occur through the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force (Task Force), which is hereby established by this order. The Task Force shall be chaired by the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor or his designee, and shall otherwise include representatives from the following departments, agencies, or components, selected as such department, agency, or component determines: (i) the Department of the Interior; (ii) the Department of Transportation; (iii) the Department of Homeland Security; (iv) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; (v) the United States Marshals Service; (vi) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; (vii) the United States Attorney's Office for the

In plain English

This sets up a task force for the city. A White House aide chairs it. Federal and local staff sit on it. Interior, Transport and Homeland Security take part. The FBI and the Marshals Service join them. So does the firearms bureau. The federal prosecutor for the city takes part too.

Sec. 4. Making the District of Columbia Beautiful

(a) The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Transportation, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, the Administrator of General Services, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the heads of such other executive departments or agencies and local officials as the Secretary of the Interior deems appropriate, shall develop and implement a program to beautify and make safe and prosperous the District of Columbia. (b) The program under subsection (a) of this section shall include, at a minimum, the following elements as appropriate and consistent with applicable law: (i) a coordinated beautification plan for Federal and local facilities, monuments, land, parks, and roadways in and around the District of Columbia; [[Page 14561]] (ii) restoration of Federal public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar

In plain English

This is about the look of the city. Interior must run a clean up program. It works with several other agencies. Local officials take part as well. The program covers federal and local sites. Monuments, parks and roads are named. Damaged monuments are to be restored.

Sec. 5. General Provisions

Every order carries this. It is not what the order does.

(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. <GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT> (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, March 27, 2025. [FR Doc. 2025-05837 Filed 4-2-25; 8:45 am] Billing code 3395-F4-P </pre></body> </html>

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