Muriel Bowser: “the COVID restrictions were for everybody, and I do not have to tell…”

On the recordJune 21, 2021

the COVID restrictions were for everybody, and I do not have to tell you that we faced a 100-year pandemic.

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Democratic · District of Columbia

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Bowser defends COVID restrictions as necessary for public health.

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