While she may be willing to negotiate secondary items with the Trump administration, there is one issue Bowser will not budge on: D.C. statehood.

With D.C.'s government governed by the Constitution and the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, any Trump executive order ...

Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

The House spending bill holds the city's budget at fiscal year 2024 numbers, even though the District's 2025 budget is based on its own revenue and had already been approved by Congress. Republicans ...

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is trying to keep the Trump administration at bay while refusing to budge on one issue: home rule and statehood for Washington, D.C. Since President ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the White House as Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser struggles to ...

WASHINGTON — D.C. neighbors have ... when Congress passed the Home Rule Act. It instated the mayoral office, the DC Council, the attorney general, and other measures to establish a local government.

Washington, DC is a world-class city. The Home Rule Act codified the District's limited autonomy in 1973 after many failed attempts to pass the legislation in Congress. Over the weekend ...

by 7News Staff TOPICS: WASHINGTON (7News ... congressional members also proposed legislation to revoke Home Rule. However, DC officials noted that crimes, especially violent ones, saw a ...

But it wasn’t until Congress passed what’s known as the District of Columbia Home Rule Act in 1973 that it got something close to self-governance. Despite LBJ’s efforts, when Washington ...

DC will lose a legion of hundreds of quiet unpaid public servants who care deeply about their neighborhoods.” The proposed Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident (BOWSER) Act to ...

Prior to Home Rule, various systems of presidentially appointed commissioners ran the city. The DC takeover 2 Republicans ... introduced the Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every ...