Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says the Democratic Party is “for crime” after speaking against Trump’s Washington move to end the crime crisis.

Democrats in Congress denounced the 30-day mobilization inside the capital, which Trump previewed during the 2024 election, as an “unjustified power grab” and vowed to block an extension. The city’s elected attorney general called it an “unlawful” abuse of emergency powers to lower crime rates that the administration itself said had fallen.