As a government shutdown looms large, and several laid-off federal government employees remain jobless, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser once again is reminded about the futility of depending on the federal government as an engine of economic mobility.

Bowser emphasized the District’s unique challenges while speaking before an audience of congresspeople, congressional staffers, corporate executives and others who recently attended the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) 54th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC).

“If this government shuts down, people right here are gonna be more impacted than any place else, because they may or may not get paid, and they may or may not get their jobs back,” Bowser told lawyer and activist Angela Rye on the evening of Sept. 26, during a mayoral Friday fir

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