President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order making it easier to remove people who are homeless from the streets as part of a set of policies the administration said would make America safer.

The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to reverse judicial precedent and Justice Department agreements with local governments known as consent decrees that limit those governments’ ability to commit homeless people who are a risk to themselves or others, the White House announced.

Under the order, Bondi would also be required to work with the secretaries of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation to prioritize grants for states and municipalities that enforce bans on open illicit drug use, “urban camping and loitering,” “urban squatting” and track sex offenders’ locations.

Funding would be available to move homeless people who are “causing public disorder” and suffer from “serious mental illness or addiction” into “treatment centers, assisted outpatient treatment, or other facilities.”

Discretionary grants for substance use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery programs would not be able to fund drug injection sites or illicit drug use under the order.

Sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance would be banned from being housed with children under the order.

Programs would also be allowed to only house women and children.

The administration justified the order by stating that the number of homeless people living on the streets in the United States during a single night in 2024 — the last year of the Biden administration — hit a record of 274,224.

“The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health disorder, or both,” stated a fact sheet on the order.

Meanwhile, the administration claimed federal and state governments “have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to public safety threats.”

Moving homeless people who are a danger to themselves or others into institutional settings “is the most proven way to restore public order,” the administration claimed.