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

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.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one ...

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 — 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 ...

WASHINGTON (7News ... Several GOP congressional members also proposed legislation to revoke Home Rule. However, DC officials noted that crimes, especially violent ones, saw a decrease in ...

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 ...

Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the painting and renamed the intersection Black Lives Matter Plaza in June 2020. It came after ...

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 ...

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the district, called the proposal “the latest blow in an escalating war on DC residents and the limited Home Rule DC currently possesses.” ...