DC mayor Bowser hardens stance on Trump, calls deployment of nationwide guard an ‘authoritarian push’
Muriel Bowser final evening hardened her stance on Donald Trump utilizing federal brokers to police the town, calling the president’s transfer an “authoritarian push”.
Talking throughout a stay city corridor on social media, the mayor of Washington DC urged group members to “defend our metropolis, to guard our autonomy, to guard our house rule and get to the opposite facet of this man and ensure we elect a Democratic Home in order that we have now a backstop to this authoritarian push”.
“We aren’t 700,000 scumbags and punks,” she added. “We don’t have neighborhoods that ought to be bulldozed. We have now to be clear about our story, who we’re and what we wish for our metropolis.”
Mayor Bowser holds a press convention in Washington DC. {Photograph}: Annabelle Gordon/Reuters
Bowser had beforehand pledged to work “facet with facet” with the federal officers Trump has tasked with overseeing the town’s regulation enforcement, whereas insisting the police chief remained in command of the division and its officers.
Talking on Tuesday after a gathering with Pam Bondi, the lawyer common, Bowser informed reporters: “What I’m targeted on is the federal surge and the best way to profit from the extra officer assist that we have now.”
Nationwide guard troops are deployed to the Washington Monument as a part of president Trump’s mobilization of regulation enforcement on 12 August 2025 in Washington DC. {Photograph}: Andrew Leyden/Getty Pictures
About 850 officers and brokers took half in a “huge regulation enforcement surge” throughout Washington DC on Monday evening and made almost two dozen arrests, the White Home has mentioned. The violent crime charge in Washington DC is at a 30-year low.
Trump’s intervention has been broadly condemned as an authoritarian energy seize that undermines the autonomy of Washington’s DC native authorities and seeks to distract consideration from political issues such because the Jeffrey Epstein information.
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As they famous, Donald Trump simply praised his European counterparts as “nice individuals who wish to see a deal achieved,” in a submit on Reality Social.
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The president has additionally undermined numerous experiences that embrace critics of his upcoming assembly with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
In a submit on Reality Social, Trump mentioned that the “very unfair media” is “always quoting fired losers and actually dump individuals like John Bolton”.
In an article printed in The Atlantic on Tuesday, the previous nationwide safety adviser mentioned that “Putin has already received. He’s the chief of a rogue state, and he’ll get an image on U.S. soil with the president of america”.
Equally, in an interview with CNN final week, Bolton mentioned that the “preliminary set-up” for Friday’s summit is a “nice victory for Putin”.
However Trump wasted no time within the submit calling out the press as “are sick and dishonest individuals, who most likely hate our nation”.
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We are able to anticipate to listen to from Donald Trump at the very least just a few instances at present. In line with the president’s day by day schedule, he’ll make an look on the Kennedy Middle at 11am ET, and make an announcement.
He’ll then head again to the White Home and signal govt orders at 4pm ET. For now this might be closed press, however might very properly open up.
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Trump praises European leaders as ‘nice individuals’ forward of calls at present
Donald Trump, forward of his deliberate digital assembly with European leaders and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a while Wednesday, praised Europe’s leaders in a submit on social media and mentioned they “wish to see a deal achieved.”
In a submit on Reality Social, the president wrote:
Can be chatting with European Leaders in a short time. They’re nice individuals who wish to see a deal achieved.
That was adopted shortly after with one other submit, criticising the best way his upcoming assembly with Putin has been portrayed within the media.
Trump wrote:
Very unfair media is at work on my assembly with Putin. Consistently quoting fired losers and actually dumb individuals like John Bolton, who simply mentioned that, although the assembly is on American soil, “Putin has already received.” What’s that each one about? We’re profitable on EVERYTHING. The Faux Information is working extra time (No tax on extra time!).
If I bought Moscow and Leningrad free, as a part of the cope with Russia, the Faux Information would say that I made a foul deal! However now they’ve been caught. Have a look at all the actual information that’s popping out about their CORRUPTION. They’re sick and dishonest individuals, who most likely hate our Nation. But it surely doesn’t matter as a result of we’re profitable on the whole lot!!! MAGA
For extra on Trump’s calls with European leaders, observe our Europe stay weblog.
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DC mayor Bowser hardens stance on Trump, calls deployment of nationwide guard an ‘authoritarian push’
Muriel Bowser final evening hardened her stance on Donald Trump utilizing federal brokers to police the town, calling the president’s transfer an “authoritarian push”.
Talking throughout a stay city corridor on social media, the mayor of Washington DC urged group members to “defend our metropolis, to guard our autonomy, to guard our house rule and get to the opposite facet of this man and ensure we elect a Democratic Home in order that we have now a backstop to this authoritarian push”.
“We aren’t 700,000 scumbags and punks,” she added. “We don’t have neighborhoods that ought to be bulldozed. We have now to be clear about our story, who we’re and what we wish for our metropolis.”
Mayor Bowser holds a press convention in Washington DC. {Photograph}: Annabelle Gordon/Reuters
Bowser had beforehand pledged to work “facet with facet” with the federal officers Trump has tasked with overseeing the town’s regulation enforcement, whereas insisting the police chief remained in command of the division and its officers.
Talking on Tuesday after a gathering with Pam Bondi, the lawyer common, Bowser informed reporters: “What I’m targeted on is the federal surge and the best way to profit from the extra officer assist that we have now.”
Nationwide guard troops are deployed to the Washington Monument as a part of president Trump’s mobilization of regulation enforcement on 12 August 2025 in Washington DC. {Photograph}: Andrew Leyden/Getty Pictures
About 850 officers and brokers took half in a “huge regulation enforcement surge” throughout Washington DC on Monday evening and made almost two dozen arrests, the White Home has mentioned. The violent crime charge in Washington DC is at a 30-year low.
Trump’s intervention has been broadly condemned as an authoritarian energy seize that undermines the autonomy of Washington’s DC native authorities and seeks to distract consideration from political issues such because the Jeffrey Epstein information.
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Rachel Leingang
In Could, the Arizona consultant Yassamin Ansari toured a detention facility the place immigrants rounded up as a part of the Trump administration’s marketing campaign of mass deportation have been being housed. She described what she noticed inside as “sickening” and “worse than jail” – immigrant detainees have been held in overcrowded, moldy cells and lots of reported that they didn’t have dependable entry to meals, water or medical care.
Two months later, Ansari returned to the distant desert advanced to conduct one other congressional oversight go to. This time, she was denied entry.
It wasn’t an remoted incident. From New York to California, Democratic members of Congress have been repeatedly blocked from coming into Ice detention amenities the place 1000’s of noncitizens – many with no prison convictions – are being held.
Democratic officers’ legislative checks – a authorized proper for members of Congress – have constantly confirmed experiences that immigrant detainees are being saved in “filthy” and “inhumane” situations with little regard for due course of. Now, the amenities have grow to be a battleground within the intensifying standoff between the Trump administration and Democratic lawmakers over the president’s supercharged immigration agenda.
“The administration’s purpose is to intimidate us and bully us, bully us out of doing our jobs for positive,” congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a New Jersey Democrat who has been accused of assaulting federal brokers throughout a confrontation on the Delaney Corridor detention middle, informed the Guardian. “If they will get away with doing this to me, they will get away with doing it to anybody. However extra importantly, think about what they’re doing at midnight to others who will not be of an elected standing, who will not be in public eye view.”
McIver, who has pleaded not responsible, mentioned her issues took on new resonance when, a month later, detainees on the hastily-converted jailhouse pushed down a dormitory wall – an act advocates described as an outcry towards starvation and overcrowding.
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Edward Helmore
The carefully watched New York mayoral and governor’s races seem like forming into shapes that may deliver little consolation to centrist Democrats, with elections occurring in November this yr in New York Metropolis and the gubernatorial vote a yr later.
A brand new Siena Institute ballot launched on Tuesday exhibits New York Metropolis’s Democratic socialist mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, main former New York governor Andrew Cuomo by 19 share factors – whereas the Republican congresswoman Elise Stefanik is chipping away at incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul’s lead in a hypothetical contest for the New York governor’s mansion in 2026.
Hochul’s lead over Stefanik, who was nominated to be US ambassador to the United Nations earlier than withdrawing to assist Republicans preserve a majority in Congress, has now dropped from 23 factors in June to 14 factors.
Stefanik has not formally selected whether or not to hunt the governor’s workplace, however she has been noticeably attacking Hochul’s file. The ballot discovered that 49% of voters within the state mentioned it will be dangerous for New York if Stefanik have been elected governor.
“The most recent Siena ballot is catastrophic for Kathy Hochul as she is dropping unbiased voters to Elise Stefanik, is beneath 50% on the poll, and solely 35% of voters wish to re-elect Kathy Hochul,” mentioned Stefanik’s govt director Alex DeGrasse in a press release to the Guardian. He predicted voters want to Stefanik to ship new management.
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California governor Gavin Newsom says the state will draw new electoral maps after Donald Trump “missed” a deadline on Tuesday evening in an ongoing redistricting battle between Democratic and Republican states.
“DONALD ‘TACO’ TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, ‘MISSED’ THE DEADLINE!!!”, Newsom’s workplace wrote on social media. “CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE ‘BEAUTIFUL MAPS,’ THEY WILL BE HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!)”.
“BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR ‘MAGA.’ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GN,” reads the submit.
The submit follows a sequence of snarky, all-caps tweets meant to imitate Trump’s social media writing model.
Newsom was mocking Trump’s moniker, “Taco”, brief for “Trump all the time chickens out”, prompted by his flip-flopping deadlines.
A number of states have waded into the redistricting wars, the place Newsom and different Democratic state leaders had threatened to attract retaliatory maps if Texas have been to maneuver forward with its redistricting scheme.
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Donald Trump’s administration has considerably modified a key US authorities report on human rights worldwide, dramatically softening criticism of some international locations which were robust companions of the Republican president, akin to El Salvador and Israel, which rights teams say have well-established histories of abuses.
As an alternative, the US state division sounded an alarm about what it mentioned was the erosion of freedom of speech in Europe and ramped up criticism of Brazil and South Africa – each of which Washington has clashed with over a bunch of points.
Criticism of governments over their therapy of LGBTQ+ rights, which appeared in Biden administration editions of the report, appeared to have been largely omitted. Washington referred to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine primarily because the “Russia-Ukraine warfare”.
The report’s part on Israel was a lot shorter than final yr’s version and contained no point out of the extreme humanitarian disaster or dying toll in Gaza. About 61,000 individuals have died, in line with the Gaza well being ministry, on account of Israel’s army operations in response to an assault by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in October 2023.
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Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is more likely to meet Donald Trump throughout a go to to the US subsequent month to attend the UN Normal Meeting assembly, the Indian Categorical newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
India’s international ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
An Indian official conversant in the matter mentioned a choice has not but been taken, and that international locations often reserve slots for the overall debate on the meeting, which is why India’s “head of presidency” options in a provisional checklist of audio system on 26 September.
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A US decide on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to revive part of the federal grant funding that it lately suspended for the College of California, Los Angeles.
US district decide Rita Lin in San Francisco dominated that the grant funding suspensions violated an earlier June preliminary injunction the place she ordered the Nationwide Science Basis to revive dozens of grants that it had terminated on the College of California.
That order had blocked the company from cancelling different grants on the College of California system, of which UCLA is a component.
“NSF’s actions violate the Preliminary Injunction,” Lin, an appointee of Democratic former president Joe Biden, wrote. The White Home and the college had no rapid touch upon the ruling.
UCLA mentioned final week the federal government froze $584m in funding. Trump has threatened to chop federal funds for universities over pro-Palestinian scholar protests towards US ally Israel’s army assault on Gaza.
The Los Angeles Occasions newspaper reported that the decide’s order requested for the restoration of greater than a 3rd of the suspended $584m funding.
The College of California mentioned final week it was reviewing a settlement supply by the Trump administration for UCLA through which the college can pay $1bn. It mentioned such a big fee would “devastate” the establishment.
The federal government alleges universities, together with UCLA, allowed antisemitism in the course of the protests.
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Opening abstract: Trump at Kennedy Middle similar day that honors are introduced
Hi there and welcome to the US politics stay weblog. My title is Tom Ambrose and I might be bringing you all the most recent information.
We begin with the information that Donald Trump might be visiting the Kennedy Middle on Wednesday, the identical day that the recipients of this yr’s honors are introduced.
Trump averted the Kennedy Middle Honors throughout his first time period after artists mentioned they might not attend out of protest. This yr, he has taken over because the Kennedy Middle‘s new chair and fired the board of trustees, which he changed with loyalists.
In a Reality Social submit Tuesday, Trump teased a reputation change for the performing arts middle and mentioned it will be restored to its former glory, AP reported.
“GREAT Nominees for the TRUMP/KENNEDY CENTER, whoops, I imply, KENNEDY CENTER, AWARDS,” Trump wrote. He mentioned work was being achieved on the location that will be “bringing it again to absolutely the TOP LEVEL of luxurious, glamour, and leisure.”
“It had fallen on laborious instances, bodily, BUT WILL SOON BE MAKING A MAJOR COMEBACK!!!” he wrote.
It’s unclear how this yr’s batch of honorees have been chosen, although Trump had indicated he wished a extra lively position. Traditionally, a bipartisan advisory committee selects the recipients, who through the years have ranged from George Balanchine and Tom Hanks to Aretha Franklin and Stephen Sondheim. A message despatched to the Kennedy Middle press workplace asking how this yr’s honorees have been chosen wasn’t returned Tuesday.
The Kennedy Middle did submit this on social media, nonetheless: “Coming Quickly … A rustic music icon, an Englishman, a New York Metropolis Rock band, a dance Queen and a multi-billion greenback Actor stroll into the Kennedy Middle Opera Home …”
In different developments:
The DC nationwide guard started deploying on the town’s streets Tuesday evening, a day after Trump ordered their arrival and took management of the town’s police drive, calling Washington DC a “lawless” metropolis, regardless of official crime statistics saying in any other case.
A federal decide ordered the Trump administration to instantly enhance situations at a New York Metropolis immigration holding facility, appearing on mounting complaints from detainees that the cells are overcrowded, unsanitary and inhumane.
The Texas Senate authorised a GOP-drawn congressional map that will give Republicans 5 extra Home seats forward of the 2026 midterms. However since Home Democrats proceed to interrupt quorum, the laws isn’t going anyplace. Speaker Dustin Burrows mentioned the Home will adjourn till Friday, at which level the legislature will try to succeed in quorum yet another time.
Trump is because of communicate with European leaders, together with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at present forward of Friday’s assembly with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt characterised Friday’s assembly between Trump and Putin as a “listening train” for the president, confirming that Zelenskyy wouldn’t be in attendance, however the president has hopes for a trilateral assembly sooner or later. For extra on the upcoming assembly, observe our Europe stay weblog right here.
California governor Gavin Newsom says the state will draw new electoral maps after Trump “missed” a deadline on Tuesday evening in an ongoing redistricting battle between Democratic and Republican states.
The Trump administration is evidently extending its management of cultural illustration on the Smithsonian, the world’s largest museum and analysis advanced. In a letter posted on the White Home web site, the administration informed the Smithsonian that it plans a large overview of exhibitions, supplies and operations forward of the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations in 2026.
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