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Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.

Congressional Republicans on Wednesday took aim at D.C. as they seek to overturn a council vote for the second time in a month.

It's a rare moment that we can place a time stamp on a U.S. president's worst decision. But in the case of Joe Biden, we can thank politics-by-Twitter for the ability to write definitively that the dumbest move —both governmentally and politically — by our 46th POTUS is the unforced…

President Joe Biden’s support of a resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and other cities

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has rejected a plea from the Democratic chairman of the Washington, D.C., Council to cancel a planned vote on a House-passed measure blocking the district’s new criminal code.

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The proposal has set off a national debate about crime.

Senate Majority Leader Schumer is rejecting an attempt by D.C. officials to avoid a vote to block a new criminal code.

In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.