Muriel Bowser: “a living, breathing testament to the energy, creativity, and resilience of our community.”

What got us there was imprudent decisions fiscally, so we had to work out of that.

I think they regard it as a success to have more presence and take more guns off the street, and we do too.

We all need to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city, 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…

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.