President Trump is expected to sign an order Monday ending cashless bail, with jurisdictions that refuse to comply facing possible loss of federal funding, the New York Post reported.
“Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced,” a White House memo states.
President Trump spoke out about cashless bail last month in a Truth Social post, writing: “Crime in American Cities started to significantly rise when they went to CASHLESS BAIL. The WORST criminals are flooding our streets and endangering even our great law enforcement officers. It is a complete disaster, and must be ended, IMMEDIATELY!”
On August 11, the president also stated, ”By the way, every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster. … I mean, bad politicians started it, bad leadership started it but that was the one thing that was central – no cash bail.”
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just signed an executive order WITHHOLDING federal funding for states and cities using cashless bail
“Cashless bail… that was when the big crime in this country started”
“They KlLL people and they get out. Cashless bail. They thought it was… pic.twitter.com/14vKFGMTOI
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 25, 2025
“Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to eliminate its policy of allowing defendants to pay money to leave jail while awaiting trial when it passed a provision in its SAFE-T Act in 2021. The new policy then took effect in Sept. 2023,” NY1 noted.
“The White House has pointed to a law enforcement study conducted in Yolo County, Calif., two years ago that determined a ‘zero bail’ policy spiked crime by 163% in that jurisdiction,” the Post pointed out.
