Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., said Friday that he recently reintroduced a crime bill in the House that would assert congressional control over Washington, D.C., to bring law and order back to the nation’s capital.

The legislation would prohibit the D.C. city council from pursuing soft-on-crime sentencing policies and lower the city’s definition of a youth from age 24 to under 18.

“We filed it last Congress,” Donalds told Newsmax’s “National Report.” “It actually passed out of the Oversight Committee. We’re refilling it again, because now we have a president who is taking the safety and security of Washington, D.C., seriously. [Former President] Joe Biden did not do that. His team did not do that. They didn’t care that the people of Washington were being victimized. They didn’t care that staffers on Capitol Hill were either being assaulted, one was murdered. You had several members of Congress, Democrat members of Congress, I might add, who were carjacked and who were assaulted in their own apartment buildings.

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