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Trump is shocking official Washington. Will he leave his mark on the District too?

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The president has moved to drastically alter the fabric of the nation’s capital.

He called the District a city of “filth” and “decay,” an insult reminiscent of ones he has hurled at other major cities he has feuded with like Baltimore or New York .

Trump has cast his departure from Washington in 2021 as a pivot point for the city.

Republicans have made similar threats to undermine the D.C. government during Mayor Muriel Bowser 's decade -long tenure.

The largely Democratic D.C. Council was about to pass a pair of bills that would have required insurers to study reparations and fully cover vasectomy procedures.

Bowser has tried to further soothe Trump and other Republicans by focusing on “shared priorities for the president’s second term”.