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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Maryland Governor Wes Moore called on attendees to remember that DC isn’t defined by what’s said in the White House or on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON — Jewish community members gathered at the French Embassy on Sunday for a gala to honor Esther Safran Foer and David M. Rubenstein.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser congratulated Foer and Rubenstein for their honor and highlighted the Capital Jewish Museum, which hosted the gala.
“It challenges each of us to consider our own place in history,” Bowser said.
The event was one of the first in DC since President Donald Trump’s federal surge of law enforcement in the city officially ended on Wednesday.
Although the federal emergency is officially over, National Guard troops will remain in Washington through December.
Bowser says she’ll continue to work with federal authorities to address crime. She called on attendees to remember that DC is bigger than its problems.
“If you watch the national news, you may feel that it’s just ‘Federal Washington,’” she told the crowd. “You know that the real DC is 700,00 people that actually live here, go to work, raise their families, and are taxpaying Americans.”
Maryland Governor Wes Moore was also in attendance.
Sunday’s event was Governor Moore’s third event over the weekend.
On Saturday, he was in Annapolis for an annual picnic with union leaders. Later that day, he traveled to DC to deliver the keynote speech at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.
Moore, who’s been a vocal critic of the Trump administration, expressed support for Mayor Bowser’s leadership.
For months, President Trump and Governor Moore have sparred on issues such as the National Guard in DC and crime.
Trump has even threatened to send the National Guard into Baltimore, a city he described as a “hellhole.”
However, Moore also says in his eyes, the people of DC aren’t defined by the words of the White House.
“It’s important to remember the people of DC are different from ‘Washington’,” he pointed out. “In Maryland, we are sometimes challenged by some of the decisions coming out of ‘Washington’, but we still love our DC folks.”
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