The mayor of our Nation’s Capitol was undeterred a few weeks ago. Her mindset was “we don’t need the National Guard.” But in a short time thereafter, the murder rate was just a blip on the radar screen; no deaths in twelve days. Only one in thirteen. She is now commending #47 for a job well done.
D.C. Democrats rebuke Mayor Muriel Bowser’s comments that Trump’s surge reduced crime
Bowser’s “words are now being used to justify harmful federal overreach in cities nationwide,” Councilmember Zachary Parker wrote on X.
Aug. 28, 2025, 12:38 PM EDT
By Dareh Gregorian and Victoria Ebner
Members of the D.C. Council are pushing back against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s remarks that President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement personnel into the city has helped lower crime.
“As I feared, our Mayor’s words are now being used to justify harmful federal overreach in cities nationwide. This is bigger than DC — or partisan politics. It’s about resisting creeping authoritarianism,” Ward 5 Councilmember Zachary Parker wrote on X, adding, “we must not legitimize an illegitimate agenda.”
In remarks Wednesday, Bowser said “this surge has been important to us” because it helped lower the rates of crimes like carjacking, but she also made clear that the presence of immigration agents and National Guard troops is “not working” and expressed hope that the initiative, which began on Aug. 7, would end soon.
The comments praising the surge were met with immediate pushback from Bowser’s fellow Democrats on the D.C. Council.
“She said she appreciates the federal surge and that it’s having positive results in D.C. That’s not the case,” at-large Councilmember Robert White Jr., a Democrat, said in a video on X.
“We should not, as the District of Columbia, be giving people the impression that this is a good thing, that we are OK with it, that it is helping the city. It is not doing any of those things, and it is not intended to help us,” White said.
“This is trampling on democracy in real time,” he said. “I am not OK with this. The average resident is not OK with this. D.C. residents, D.C. voters, are not OK with this.”
Imagine these “A” holes on the council criticizing the mayor for giving credit to Trump.
Trump praises Democratic DC mayor for working with his administration on crime crackdown
Bowser’s cooperation on crime crackdown leads to 87% drop in carjackings, 45% decline in violent crime
President Donald Trump praised Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser for cooperating with his administration amid a deployment of National Guard troops to the city to help combat crime.
“Wow! Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C. has become very popular because she worked with me and my great people in bringing crime down to virtually nothing in D.C.,” Trump posted on his Truth Social Monday.
“Her statements and actions were positive, instead of others like [Illinois Gov. J.B.] Pritzker, [Maryland Gov.] Wes Moore, [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, and the 5% approval-rated mayor of Chicago, who spend all of their time trying to justify violent crime instead of working with us to completely eliminate it, which we have done in Washington, D.C., now a crime-free zone,” he added.