A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's plan to reallocate more than $4 billion in federal disaster preparedness funds, marking a legal victory for 20 states that challenged the move.

Also, Washington officials are reacting to Attorney General Pam Bondi's order Thursday evening designating the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration Terry Cole as "Emergency Police Commissioner" -- a role that would have him assuming assuming "all the powers and duties" vested in the Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith.

President Donald Trump said Monday he's activating the National Guard to help reduce crime across Washington. Joined by some members of his Cabinet in a packed briefing room, the Republican president said he was putting the District of Columbia's police under federal control and declaring a public safety emergency.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Democrats will fight President Trump tooth and nail if he wants to keep the National Guard in Washington, D.C. longer than permitted. The president deployed the guard to deal with crime in the nation's capital.

This is the time to decide: will we be the generation that let fascism solidify its grip on American soil, or the generation that broke it before it could break us?

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced that DEA Administrator Terrence Cole will temporarily serve as the chief of Washington, D.C.'s police department.

Trump has justified his most far-reaching assertions of tariff power by citing the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which allows tariffs on all imports during an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States."