Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is moving forward with a resolution to overhaul the D.C. Home Rule Act, giving President Donald Trump the authority to maintain control over the city’s police force for as long as he deems necessary.

Trump invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act earlier this week after declaring a crime emergency in the nation’s capital, seizing command of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deploying National Guard troops alongside FBI and DEA agents to patrol the streets. The current law allows a president to federalize the local police for a maximum of 30 days without congressional approval.

Ogles says that limit is not enough to reverse what he calls the “chaos Democrats have unleashed” in the city. “The only way to save it is to federalize the District,” Ogles told Fox News Digital, arguing that Trump should have “all the time and authority he needs to crush lawlessness, restore order, and reclaim our capital once and for all.”

Under Ogles’ proposed change, the president would no longer be bound by the 30-day restriction. Instead, he would simply notify the House Oversight and Senate Homeland Security committees each time he chooses to extend federal control. The arrangement would continue indefinitely unless Congress passed a joint resolution to end it — a high bar given that such action would need bipartisan agreement.

The push comes as Trump weighs how to maintain his current control without waiting for Congress. Extending authority through a joint resolution would likely require 60 votes in the Senate, something Democrats and some Republicans are expected to oppose. By removing the time limit entirely, Ogles’ plan would allow Trump to sidestep those hurdles.

This proposal is part of Ogles’ broader campaign to repeal the D.C. Home Rule Act altogether. Alongside Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, he has introduced the “Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident” (BOWSER) Act — named pointedly after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser — which would strip the city’s local government of autonomy and return direct control of D.C. to Congress.

Ogles and his allies argue that decades of Democrat leadership have turned the capital into a magnet for violent crime, citing rising homicide rates, repeat offender cases, and what they describe as a failure of local officials to maintain order. Trump’s intervention, they say, is both lawful and necessary to restore public safety.

Democrats in Washington are fiercely opposed. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made his position bluntly clear in an interview, saying, “No f—— way. We’ll fight him tooth and nail.… He needs to get Congress to approve it, and not only are we not going to approve it, but there are some Republicans who don’t like it either.”

The standoff underscores the deep partisan divide over how to govern D.C., which is not a state and falls under the constitutional authority of Congress. While Republicans push for stronger federal oversight — especially in light of crime concerns — Democrats frame the moves as an attack on home rule and local democracy.

For now, Trump’s initial 30-day control of the MPD remains in effect, but with Ogles’ resolution in play, the fight over who polices the capital — and for how long — could quickly become one of the most explosive legal and political battles of the year.