This resolution ends an emergency declaration that the President made on August 11, 2025, claiming there was a crime crisis in Washington, D.C. that required federal intervention. Essentially, Congress is saying this emergency declaration should no longer be in effect.

The resolution argues that the emergency declaration wasn't justified. According to the bill, violent crime in D.C. has actually been dropping for the past two years and is now at its lowest level in 30 years—the opposite of an emergency situation. The bill also points out that because of this emergency declaration, the federal government blocked D.C. from spending $1 billion of its own locally-raised tax money that was supposed to go toward public safety, police, firefighting, emergency services, and schools.

Basically, Congress is saying: there's no real emergency here, crime is improving, and this declaration is preventing D.C. from using its own money for important services. So they're terminating the emergency order to let D.C. regain control of its budget and spending decisions.

A joint resolution terminating the emergency determined by the President on August 11, 2025, in the Executive Order titled "Declaring a crime emergency in the District of Columbia".