Muriel Bowser: “We also brought our city back from the ravages of a global pandemic and summoned our collective strength to stand tall…”

our limited self-government has never faced the type of test we are facing right now.

the hardest thing I've had to do

We never want to go back there.

And 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.