President Trump expressed support for codifying cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency and some executive orders his administration has signed, including ending sanctuary cities.
“I think they’re going to do it,” Mr. Trump told reporters while meeting with U.S. ambassadors Tuesday. “I think we’re also going to be codifying a lot of the executive orders that we’ve done, which have been very popular.”
He said that sanctuary cities will be ended for “some of these jurisdictions that aren’t cooperating with law enforcement.”
“They’re guarding criminals, they’re taking the rights away from the citizens of the state, in the city,” he said. “And we’re going to be ending sanctuary cities if we find it necessary to do in certain major areas, and we may just end the entire thing altogether, because it’s just a way of protecting criminals, and nobody else has benefited by that.”
He railed against congressional Democrats for protecting sanctuary cities and said the crime rate had “gone through the roof” under the Biden administration.
“It’s starting to come down but we’re taking a lot of people out of here, so we may be presenting you very shortly with an executive order ending sanctuary cities,” he said.
An order signed by Mr. Trump signed last month that would target sanctuary cities by identifying any federal financial benefits that have gone to undocumented immigrants.
