District of Columbia
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WASHINGTON (AP) District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowsers cellphone rang earlier this week from an unfamiliar number: It was the White House calling to say President Donald Trump wanted to talk.
The president congratulated Washington's mayor on $876 million in federal coronavirus relief going to the Washington-area Metro system money that was welcome but not under the mayor's jurisdiction, instead going to a regional transportation authority.
Bowser used the moment to remind Trump that the District a city of 700,000 people that includes more than 150,000 federal workers got $700 million less in coronavirus relief money than each of the 50 states because it was classified as a territory at Senate Republicans' insistence in the first round of federal relief passed by Congress.
As a candidate, Trump spoke warmly of the nations capital and said he wanted whatever is best for its residents. But over the course of his more than three years in office a disconnect between the president and District of Columbia has emerged. The public differences have only become more stark during the pandemic.
Read more: https://dentonrc.com/ap/washington/trumps-disconnect-with-dc-widens-during-viral-pandemic/article_34f87ca7-e433-50b4-8e44-55da05f8f89b.html
(Denton Record-Chronicle)
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(130,825 posts)magicarpet
(14,143 posts)Happy talk to your face,... stab you as soon as you turn your back to look the other way.
sheshe2
(83,708 posts)RainCaster
(10,853 posts)It baffles me. Why?