Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female Mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
Bowser calls LGBTQ groups’ opposition to funding cuts ‘unsustainable’
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated at a press conference on Monday that a request by at least 10 local LGBTQ organizations that she not cut any city funding next year for LGBTQ related social services programs is “an unsustainable point of view.” In response to a question from the Washington Blade, the mayor said she was working with her budget team and city agency directors to develop a required balanced budget “with substantially less” money due to revenue shortfalls caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
A Dec. 14 joint letter sent to Bowser from 10 D.C.-based LGBTQ organizations and nine LGBTQ supportive groups expresses concern that officials from the D.C.
