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.
LGBTQ groups lower D.C. budget request
A coalition of 10 local LGBTQ or LGBTQ supportive organizations that called on Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council in January to approve $22.6 million in the city’s fiscal year 2021 budget for LGBTQ related programs has lowered its request to $10.6 million.
In a June 4 joint letter to D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large), the groups said that due to the city’s severe budget shortfall brought about by the coronavirus outbreak, the groups had pared down their original request by
