With her latest executive order, the Mayor of our city has again signaled her plan to collaborate indefinitely with federal law enforcement, to capitulate in advance. This in the face of the Administration’s egregious takeover of a city of 700,000 residents, who have made clear their disdain for federal occupation.
Today’s announcement that the fed government will make use of Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard in DC should concern not only the city’s 700,000 residents, but all Americans. Today our federal government seeks to interfere in DC’s local affairs, but any city could be next.
The more the deal is analyzed, the clearer it is that in a very rushed process, with artificial deadlines, the city has negotiated a deal that will pay well for the team, but not for the District or its residents.
I have opposed, from the start, the use of taxpayer dollars to support a stadium for a private organization, owned by billionaires, that will make them billions of dollars. The more the deal is analyzed, the more resolved I am in my position.
I am greatly disappointed in the Council’s vote to reverse decades of protections for tenants under TOPA. I reject the assumption that the only way to increase production of housing for new tenants is to take away rights from existing tenants.
The proposed changes would create predictability for building owners and developers, encourage new housing investment in the District, and protect the rights of tenants to negotiate when residential buildings go up for sale.
Voters will soon be able to rank their choices when voting in D.C. elections, thanks to Council approval of an amendment to the FY 2026 budget that funds the Ranked Choice Voting portion of Initiative 83.
