WASHINGTON – Ahead of Congress reconvening next Tuesday, September 2nd, Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) released a video promoting the consideration and passage of H.R. 4922 – The D.C. CRIMES Act, to combat the epidemic of youth violence plaguing the nation's capital and Make D.C. Safe Again.

Specifically, this Donalds-led legislation addresses youth crime by lowering D.C.’s definition of a “youth” from 24 years old to under 18, resulting in individuals 18 and older properly treated and tried as adults. The bill also removes judicial discretion that allows youth offenders to be sentenced below the mandatory minimum for a crime and prohibits the D.C. Council from enacting any additional changes to D.C.’s mandatory minimum sentences and sentencing guidelines.

This afternoon, Fox News Digital is reporting: "The House Oversight Committee is planning to advance several bills next month to back up President Donald Trump's crackdown on crime in Washington...the panel will mark up bills to combat juvenile crime in D.C., address the D.C. education system, and end restrictive policing policies enacted by the D.C. Council that prevent law enforcement from keeping residents and visitors safe."

Watch the video here.

See Video Transcript Below:

REPORTER: "Can you tell us what the chain of command is now?"

D.C. POLICE CHIEF SMITH: "What does that mean?"

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back."

VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: "The past twenty or thirty years, D.C. has averaged a murder every other day. Every other day, a person has been killed on the streets of Washington, D.C. We've been doing this for two weeks. Zero people killed. That's real lives saved."

7 NEWS D.C. WJLA: "Byron Donalds presented this bill."

FOX 45 BALTIMORE WBFF: "A bill that would make changes to D.C.'s youth offender system."

EMMA RECHENBERG–NEWSMAX: "And lowering the city's definition of a youth from twenty-four to under eighteen."

HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN COMER: "We have new Senate leadership and hopefully we'll be able to pass that bill into law."

CONGRESSMAN DONALDS: "These are not political talking points. This is real life. The President of the United States and Congress have a responsibility to make sure that the nation's capital is safe and if the local government is not going to do that, then the federal government has a responsibility to step in."

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