Local Washington Officials Brace for Four Years of Playing Defense Against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : During the last four years, with Trump as an aggrieved private citizen, his feelings toward Washington have remained intense.
50% : "Henderson, a former staffer for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., points out that Trump has already experienced what she called "the trifecta" -- Republican control of the White House and both houses of Congress -- during his first two years in office and the district managed to get through it.
42% : A staunch opponent of legalized marijuana, Harris has for years used a budget rider to prevent the local government from creating any sort of regulatory framework for taxing or controlling sales.
41% : And Bowser, Trump and Republicans in Congress have all agreed for years on one particular issue: the need to end post-pandemic teleworking and bring all federal employees back to their offices five days a week.
35% : She said she looked forward to discussing that with Trump.
34% : Even when Trump was out of the White House, activist Republicans on the House Oversight Committee repeatedly summoned Bowser and members of the D.C. Council -- often to publicly grill them about local crime rates.
32% : Now with Trump set to return to power -- backed by a Republican-controlled Congress and the momentum of a sweeping electoral win -- local officials in the nation's capital are trying to sound conciliatory while preparing for the worst.
17% : When mass protests broke out in the summer of 2020 over the death of George Floyd and wider police brutality and racial issues, Trump accused Bowser of losing control of her city.
15% : When Trump floated the idea of a massive July 4 military parade complete with tanks rolling through the streets, the D.C. Council publicly mocked him.
11% : In August 2023, when he briefly came to town to plead not guilty on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 electoral loss to President Joe Biden, Trump blasted the capital city on social media, calling it a "filthy and crime ridden embarrassment to our nation.

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