DC Mayor Shades Trump For Deploying an ‘Armed Militia’ On Her Streets

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser gave a press conference on Wednesday and was asked about President Donald Trump’s ongoing deployment of National Guard troops in her city, a highly controversial move that the president claims has already brought down crime.

During the presser Bowser was asked, “Vice President JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are about to speak at Union Station, thanking the National Guard troops, do you think placing the troops at major transit hubs or monuments is the most strategic deployment instead of, say, high-crime areas?”

“I don’t think the National Guard should be used for law enforcement,” Bowser replied, adding:

And I don’t– calling men and women from their homes, and their jobs, and their families – they have to be used on mission-specific items that benefit the nation. I don’t think you have an armed militia in the nation’s capital.

Bowser and many of her fellow Democrats have repeatedly slammed Trump’s use of the National Guard to fight crime and warned against normalizing troops on American streets.

Bowser initially called Trump’s actions “unsettling and unprecedented” and, in recent days, slammed Republican governors for sending some of their National Guard troops to DC. “I don’t have any authority over the D.C. guard or any other guards, but I think it is, kind of makes the point that this is not about D.C. crime,’ she said over the weekend on the topic.

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.