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 this authoritarian push.
Bowser's response to Trump's federal control of D.C. police during a virtual event.
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the D.C. National Guard in response, which the White House has not chosen to actually do.
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.
We don’t live in a dirty city. We are not 700,000 scumbags and punks. And we don’t have neighborhoods that should be bulldozed.
If the priority is to show force in an American city, we know he can do that here. But it won’t be because there’s a spike in crime.
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