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.
Whitman-Walker awarded $22.5 million for new Max Robinson Center
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and an official with the U.S. Department of Treasury announced on Dec. 11 that Whitman-Walker Health has been awarded $22.5 million in federal funds for its recently opened Max Robinson Center facility to expand the facility’s health care and community services operations.
Bowser and Joseph Wender, director of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Capital Projects Fund, delivered the announcement at a press conference at the Max Robinson Center’s new building at the city’s St.
Elizabeth’s East Campus in Southeast D.C. Bowser and Wender said the funds were approved by the Biden administration as part of the American Rescue Plan’s Capital Projects Fund, which was created by legislation approved by Congress and signed by President Biden in 2021 to boost the nation’s economy at the time of the COVID pandemic.
The legislation allocated $10 billion under the Capital Projects Fund for states, D.C., territories, and Native American tribal governments to fund projects related to infrastructure, education, and health care monitoring. “This investment in Whitman-Walker will spur innovation and create new career and care opportunities for our residents – right here on the St.
