Washington, DC, doesn’t need a “federal emergency,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday, adding her new executive order is meant to be a pathway out of the federal takeover that is set to end this month.

The Democratic mayor clarified that her order this week, which requires the city to coordinate with federal law enforcement , is not an endorsement of the Trump administration’s ongoing involvement in the city, but rather a framework for ending the president’s federal emergency.

“Let me tell you, without equivocation, that the mayor’s order does not extend the Trump emergency,” Bowser said at a press conference. “In fact, it does the exact opposite. What it does is lay out a framework for how we will exit the emergency. The emergency ends on September 10. The only way it can be extended

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