President Donald Trump plans to sign executive orders Monday targeting cashless bail in Washington D.C. and nationwide by threatening federal funding cuts to jurisdictions.
President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order on Monday that aims to eliminate cashless bail for suspects arrested in Washington, D.C., a White House official confirmed to Fox News.
In addition to the D.C.-focused executive order, Fox News confirmed that Trump is also expected to sign a second executive order with the goal of ending cash bail nationwide by threatening to revoke federal funding for jurisdictions across the country. The New York Post first reported on the separate nationwide executive order.
Trump spoke about ending the nocash bail policy earlier this month, though hinted that he was going to do it through Congress using Republican votes «because the Democrats are weak on crime, totally weak on crime.»
«Every place in the country where you have no-cash bail is a disaster», Trump said at the time, specifically naming New York and Chicago. «I mean, bad politicians started it, bad leadership started it. But that was the one thing that’s central.
