What This Bill Does
The Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025 would direct the Secretary of the Interior to create a program to beautify Washington, D.C., within 30 days of enactment. The program is meant to coordinate cleanup of federal and local property, remove graffiti, and restore damaged or altered monuments, memorials, statues, and markers. It would also create a District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Commission made up of federal law enforcement and city officials to recommend actions on immigration enforcement, crime reduction, transit fare evasion, forensic lab accreditation, concealed carry processing, and related public-safety issues. Both the program and the commission would sunset on January 2, 2029.
- Requires the Secretary of the Interior to develop a D.C. beautification program within 30 days of enactment.
- Directs coordination on cleanliness of federal and District facilities, monuments, sidewalks, parks, highways, roads, and transit systems.
- Calls for restoration of damaged, defaced, or altered monuments and memorials, to the extent practicable.
- Creates a District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Commission with federal and D.C. representatives.
- Sunsets both the program and the commission on January 2, 2029.
Who This Bill Affects
For people who live in, work in, or regularly travel through Washington, D.C., this bill would likely mean more federal attention to cleaning public spaces, restoring monuments, and increasing law-enforcement coordination in areas such as the National Mall, Union Station, Rock Creek Park, Anacostia Park, and major parkways. It could also affect people seeking concealed carry licenses in the District, since the commission is directed to help increase the speed and lower the cost of processing those requests. Because the bill is focused on D.C. and specific federal properties and systems, its direct effect on most Americans outside the region would be limited.
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October 3, 2025H.R. 5103, the Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025, was reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 10, 2025, and the CBO published its cost estimate on October 3, 2025. Because the full CBO text was not provided, detailed budget effects should be read in the linked CBO report.
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- D.C. residents and local business owners They may support the bill because cleaner streets, graffiti removal, restored monuments, and more visible law enforcement could improve daily quality of life and make commercial and tourist areas feel safer and more orderly.
- Federal property managers and transportation users People responsible for or affected by federal spaces may favor clearer coordination among agencies, especially where federal land, transit corridors, and heavily visited public areas overlap with District jurisdiction.
- Public safety advocates They are likely to back the commission’s focus on crime reduction, forensic lab accreditation, transit fare evasion, and faster concealed-carry processing as practical steps to strengthen enforcement and administration.
- District of Columbia officials and local autonomy advocates They may argue the bill expands federal control over local policing, transit, and public policy decisions that are normally managed by the District, reducing local discretion.
- Civil liberties and immigrant-rights advocates They are likely to object to the provisions on maximum immigration enforcement, sanctuary-city monitoring, and deportation-oriented resource redirection, which they may see as punitive and overbroad.
- Budget watchdogs and process skeptics They may question whether creating another commission and reporting structure will produce concrete results beyond additional bureaucracy, especially since many functions overlap with existing agencies.
Key Implications
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““The Secretary of the Interior ... shall develop a program to beautify the District of Columbia””
This puts Interior in a lead coordinating role for D.C. cleanup and restoration efforts, rather than leaving the task entirely to local authorities or ad hoc agency action.
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““coordinate, and maintain, the cleanliness” of ... sidewalks, parks, highways, roads, transit systems”
The program reaches beyond monuments and into everyday public spaces, which means its effects could be visible in the places residents and commuters use most often.
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““restore ... public monuments, memorials, statues, markers ... damaged or defaced””
This creates a federal process aimed at repairing or reinstating historically or symbolically important objects in the District, including ones that were altered or removed.
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““maximum enforcement of Federal immigration law within the District of Columbia””
The commission would formally push agencies toward stronger immigration enforcement in D.C., which could affect policing priorities and interactions with immigrant communities.
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““shall terminate on January 2, 2029””
Both initiatives are temporary, so any changes they produce would depend on implementation before the sunset date and on whether Congress later extends them.
Latest Status
June 16, 2026
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 437.
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