Posted on 08/14/2025 8:37:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (AP) — As National Guard troops deploy across her city as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to clamp down on crime, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is responding with relative restraint.
She’s called Trump’s takeover of the city’s police department and his decision to activate 800 members of the guard “ unsettling and unprecedented ” and gone as far as to cast his efforts as part of an “authoritarian push.”
But Bowser has so far avoided the kind of biting rhetoric and personal attacks typical of other high-profile Democratic leaders, despite the unprecedented incursion into her city.
“While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can’t say that, given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised,” Bowser told reporters at a press conference responding to the efforts. She even suggested the surge in resources might benefit the city and noted that limited home rule allows the federal government “to intrude on our autonomy in many ways.”
“My tenor will be appropriate for what I think is important for the District,” said Bowser, who is in her third term as mayor. “And what’s important for the District is that we can take care of our citizens.”
The approach underscores the reality of Washington’s precarious position under the thumb of the federal government. Trump has repeatedly threatened an outright takeover of the overwhelmingly Democratic city, which is granted autonomy through a limited home rule agreement passed in 1973 that could be repealed by Congress. Republicans, who control both chambers, have already frozen more than a $1 billion in local spending, slashing the city’s budget.
That puts her in a very different position from figures such as...
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Did bow wow feel the same when Pelosi called out the guard and put a fence around the Capitol?
I didn’t think so. Leftist trash.
DOGE the DC government.
“My tenor will be appropriate for what I think is important for the District,” said Bowser, who is in her third term as mayor. “And what’s important for the District is that we can take care of our citizens.”
So...how did that work out for you and your citizens?
WHAT IS THE OVER/UNDER AS TO WHEN SHE QUITS???
HER INCOMPETENCE IS ON FULL DISPLAY
Trump took away some of their power. They are really angry. They don’t care about the folks — they do care about the power.
Trump came into office and he is shaking things up. He’s fixing what needs to be fixed. Democrats hate that and will do anything to hold on to power.
Retrocede everything outside the capital area back to Maryland
“...despite the unprecedented incursion into her city.”
Mayor Muriel Bowser‘s city, DC is a disgrace.
She should be thanking Trump for trying to clean up her cesspool of
a city.
DEI hire DC Chief of Police, former “Chief Equity Officer” when asked:
REPORTER: “Do you know what the chain of command is now?”
D.C. Chief Smith: “What does that mean?”
Tells ya all ya need to know about DC, as well as the current systems running things in every big city.
The Thing That Can’t Be Named.
And everybody knows exactly what it is.
That pesky Constitution . . . Again?
Always hamstringing our democratic tyros and their plans for mob rule.
Never mind the “delicate” walk...
She needs to be doing the “perp” walk...
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