WASHINGTON—Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke out on Feb. 20 against President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the federal government should assume control of the city she governs.
“Of course, it’s frustrating, and we think it’s also wrong,” Bowser said at a press conference.
Bowser’s response comes one day after Trump’s comments, made amid criticisms of the high rate of crime, graffiti, and homelessness in the United States’ capital city.
“I think we should take over Washington, D.C. … I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it flawlessly beautiful,” he told reporters on Air Force One on Feb. 19. …