D.C. Democrats rebuke Mayor Muriel Bowser's comments that Trump's surge reduced crime

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"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."

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"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.”

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Another Democratic councilmember, Brianne Nadeau, of Ward 1, posted on X that "DC is under siege" from the federal government, with "armed military patrolling our streets & masked agents scooping up neighbors & taking them away."

"Our residents are afraid, hesitant to go out & to work, angry that our limited autonomy is being eroded. There is nothing welcome about this," she said.

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