posted<\/a>, referencing the address of the White House.\n <\/p>\n\n Other Democrats like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who dealt with Trump\u2019s deployment of the National Guard in her own city, also dismissed the president\u2019s actions.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cTo me, it just all boiled down to being a stunt and I just don\u2019t think you should use our troops for political stunts,\u201d said Bass.\n <\/p>\n
\n Christina Henderson, a member of the DC council, suggested she empathized with the difficult balance Bowser is trying to strike. She noted that only in 1973 did Congress allow DC residents to elect a mayor, council members and neighborhood commissioners, but prohibited the council from enacting certain laws and the city from having voting members in the US House or Senate.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou do not want to be the mayor that loses home rule and that there is no mayor after you,\u201d Henderson said.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Asked if she planned to push back harder in the wake of an unprecedented undermining of her authority, Bowser said Monday, \u201cMy tenor will be appropriate for what I think is important for the district and what\u2019s important for the district is that we can take care of our citizens.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n But Bowser struck a stronger tone during a virtual conversation with community leaders on Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n
\n Asked what residents can do, Bowser said, \u201cThis is a time where community needs to jump in and we all need to, to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our Home Rule, and get to the other side of this guy, and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Veteran city reporter Tom Sherwood, a political analyst for DC public radio station WAMU, says Bowser is trying to be strategic.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI believe that the mayor has done all she can do to tend to the weather-vane attitude of President Trump,\u201d Sherwood said. \u201cThe image from the president is that the district is a liberal, mostly Black city that doesn\u2019t care about fighting crime, and so that\u2019s left the mayor and the DC Council as prime targets for him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Anti-Trump sentiment is fierce in activist spaces across the city, which former Vice President Kamala Harris won last year with 90% of the vote.\n <\/p>\n
\n At a demonstration this week, the Free DC project, a movement grounded in demanding DC statehood, denounced the Trump administration\u2019s actions. Organizers accused Trump of trying to provoke violence and compared immigration arrests to kidnappings.\n <\/p>\n
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\n \u201cBlack Washingtonians have long recognized that community violence cannot be solved through state violence,\u201d said Free DC\u2019s organizing director Nee Nee Taylor, questioning the effectiveness of policing over investing in social programs to uplift the most vulnerable.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe will not be idle as oppressors\u2019 structures try to harm our communities and take power,\u201d she added.\n <\/p>\n
\n When asked if she was disappointed Bowser was not mirroring the intense pushback as seen and heard from community members on city streets, Taylor said she thinks the mayor is doing all she can and that she is occupying a different role.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think she\u2019s standing up to the best of her ability, being that DC is not a state,\u201d Taylor said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-142260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115021248634832854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}