DC Mayor Bowser Navigates Federal Power Play Amidst Trump’s City Takeover Efforts
DC Mayor Bowser Navigates Federal Power Play Amidst Trump’s City Takeover Efforts As National Guard troops are deployed across Washington D.C. under President Donald Trump’s initiatives to curb crime, Mayor Muriel Bowser is exercising a cautious response. She has characterized Trump’s assumption of control over the city’s police department and the activation of 800 Guard members as “unsettling and unprecedented,” even going so far as to label his actions an “authoritarian push.” Despite this significant federal incursion into the city’s…