WASHINGTON — Mayor Muriel Bowser is rejecting the majority of proposals targeting the District that are being considered by Republican members of Congress as a way to continue the Trump administration's incursion on the nation's capital.

In a letter sent Wednesday to the ranking members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Bowser makes her case as to why Congress should respect DC's self-governance.

"I write to you now to ask you to reject 13 of the DC bills before you today that encroach on DC's Home Rule," Bowser says in part.

The letter addressed in part to Bowser's ally on Capitol Hill, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who chairs the oversight committee addresses how the mayor has created a plan to continue working with the federal government after

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