a social media post<\/a> Thursday that she\u2019s flown to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to pick her daughter up from summer camp, though critics say she should\u2019ve stayed in the city as federal law enforcement\u2019s presence grows.<\/p>\nIn the post, Bowser said she made the \u201cdifficult decision to not disrupt my daughter\u2019s camp plans.\u201d She added that she\u2019d be bringing her 7-year-old daughter, Miranda, back to D.C. on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am in constant contact with my senior team and have been in constant consultation with our partners throughout a short swing out of the District.\u201d<\/p>\n
After it was reported that Bowser was not in the city Thursday, critics accused her of going on vacation or otherwise fleeing during the federal law enforcement intervention.<\/p>\n
In an interview with former MSNBC host Joy Reid, Bowser said, \u201cI\u2019m mayor no matter where I am,\u201d adding that \u201cthe unexpected and unprecedented actions of Donald Trump\u201d threw off her already scheduled plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been, in this period of time, focused with my senior team,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s very serious what\u2019s facing the District.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bowser added that there is a lack of self-governance and limited autonomy through the Home Rule Act, which \u201cis pretty specific in what powers the Congress retains and what authority the president has in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser clarified in a social media post Thursday that she’s flown to Martha’s Vineyard to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[86947,86948,56925,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-147326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-ciara-wells","10":"tag-dc-federal-takeover","11":"tag-muriel-bowser","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115031813940533614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147326","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=147326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}