President Donald Trump has long railed against the "filth" and "decay" of Washington, D.C., and has said the U.S. capital city is an embarrassment to foreign dignitaries that arrive to talk diplomacy.
And now he is already working on his vow to make D.C. "great again."
Trump vowed on the campaign trail to make D.C. a world showcase of American exceptionalism.
The difference in this term from the end of his last is he has a Republican Congress to help him pass legislation that can retake some level of authority from Democrat rule, including the decade-long reign of Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Trump is working on executive orders to delve into Washington, D.C., governance on issues like public safety and homeless encampments, along with his sanctuary city strikes from Homeland Security and the Justice Department, Politico reported.
"Very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and graffiti," Trump said on a rare trip back to the city before the election. "This is not the place that I left. It's a very sad thing to see."
Congress has already moved to stop Democrats and Bowser from policies that Republicans say have ruined other major U.S. cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Roughly two years ago, Congress blocked D.C. from reducing penalties on criminals in the social justice movement.
Republicans have also decried Bowser's failures in curbing increasing violent crime in the city.
"The radically progressive regime of D.C. Mayor Bowser has left our nation's capital in crime-ridden shambles," Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., wrote in the press release for his BOWSER Act (Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident). "Bowser and her corrupt Washington City Council are incapable of managing the city."
Bowser visited Mar-a-Lago during the transition to agree to work with Trump on cleaning up the city.
"I agree with the president-elect on this point," she said in December. "We want to make our nation's capital the most beautiful capital in the world."