As DC Council members roamed the halls of Congress on Monday, lobbying GOP lawmakers against a federal funding bill that would strip more than $1 billion from the district’s budget, city crews were simultaneously tearing up a road 2 miles away,
Plans to remove the mural were announced by the city's Mayor Muriel Bowser after Republican lawmakers threatened to cut millions in transportation funding.
Workers in Washington on Monday began removing a "Black Lives Matter" street mural installed during the height of 2020 racial justice protests, bowing to pressure from President Donald Trump. Large, yellow lettering reading "Black Live Matter" has been painted on a roadway near the White House since June 2020,
President Donald Trump has put aside an executive order that would have empowered the federal government to take over Washington, D.C. — for now. Trump’s decision coincides with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser‘s apparent political moderation in recent weeks,