Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday ordered the Metropolitan Police Department to continue coordinating with federal law enforcement officials indefinitely, a concession to President Donald Trump after he sought to flex federal power over the local police force.
The order, which lacks an expiration date, requires local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.”
In a post to X announcing the order, Bowser called it “the pathway forward beyond the Presidential emergency,” which was issued by Trump last month as part of a stated effort to fight crime in D.C.