White House efforts to tighten its grip on the Washington, D.C., police force are prompting pushback from the city’s leaders, escalating tensions as the Trump administration sought to compel Washington’s help with immigration enforcement.

Under the agreement, Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police will go back under the chairmanship of Pamela Smith, effectively removing Terry Cole, the top administrator for the Drug and Enforcement Admini

Trump signed an executive order directing the city’s mayor to hand temporary control of the Metropolitan Police Department to the federal government.