{"id":2377863,"date":"2024-12-09T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-dc-council-is-trying-to-fly-under-trumps-radar-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:08:32","slug":"how-the-dc-council-is-trying-to-fly-under-trumps-radar-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-dc-council-is-trying-to-fly-under-trumps-radar-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"How the DC Council is trying to fly under Trump\u2019s radar &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-the-dc-council-is-trying-to-fly-under-trumps-radar-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2377863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-issues-multiple-corrections-for-article-falsely-claiming-900000-u-s-children-have-been-hospitalized-for-covid-19-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York Times Issues Multiple Corrections For Article Falsely Claiming 900,000 U.S. Children Have Been Hospitalized For COVID-19 During Pandemic\">article discusses<\/a> how\u2062 the D.C. Council is taking measures to\u200c minimize potential backlash from \u2062Republicans, especially considering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-amendment-advocates-gather-in-phoenix-to-get-up-to-speed-and-recharge\/\" title=\"Gun rights supporters meet in Phoenix to stay informed and energized.\">current \u200dpolitical climate<\/a>. to achieve \u2062this, lawmakers are strategically renaming \u200dcertain proposed bills \u200cto use more neutral titles that avoid drawing attention from the Trump administration\u2063 and \u200ccongress. For example, the &#8220;Reparations Foundation\u200c Fund and Task Force Establishment \u2064Act&#8221; has been renamed to the &#8220;Insurance Regulation Amendment Act.&#8221; D.C.Council Chairman Phil\u200b Mendelson \u200bemphasized \u200dthe goal is to\u2064 foster a \u2064cooperative relationship with the Republican leadership, focusing \u200bdiscussions on substantive issues rather than controversial topics \u200cthat might \u200cprovoke opposition.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">How the DC Council is trying to fly under Trump&rsquo;s radar<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1905717\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Washington, D.C.,<\/a> lawmakers are trying not to attract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Republicans<\/a>&lsquo; attention, opting for benign bill names to avoid getting any attention from the next White House and Congress.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The Council of the District of Columbia so far renamed two bills, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/12\/08\/dc-council-trump-congress-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The previously named Reparations Foundation Fund and Task Force Establishment Act, which would create a study group focused on reparations to the Insurance Database Amendment Act, and the Advancing the Range of Reproductive Options for Washingtonians Amendment Act, which would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-bill-would-make-insurance-fund-unlimited-attempts-to-create-motherless-and-fatherless-children\/\" title=\"California Bill Proposes Unlimited Insurance Coverage for Assisted Reproduction\">require insurance companies<\/a> to cover vasectomy procedures and related services, was changed to&nbsp;the Insurance Regulation Amendment Act.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, a Democrat, as well as two other city officials, told the outlet the changes are part of a strategic effort across the city&rsquo;s government to adopt a more neutral stance on some sensitive matters in hopes of avoiding Republican backlash.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am not afraid of President Trump. I would like to have the Council working with him, the government working with him,&rdquo; Mendelson said. &ldquo;I want to be more careful about ensuring that what we are talking about is focused on issues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mendelson said some of the naming approach is from a standoff that happened last year between the city council and Congress over a revision to D.C.&rsquo;s criminal code. The House and Senate voted in favor of overturning local, D.C. legislation for the first time in more than 30 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The political fight was encompassed by a series of testy hearings with congressional Republicans, using the state of crime in D.C. to portray nationwide Democrats as being soft on crime.<\/p>\n<p>Mendelson said, &ldquo;The Council lost control of the messaging on that issue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Lesson learned,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We need to be sensitive to messaging.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Before the election, the reparations bill from Councilman Kenyan McDuffie, which was co-introduced by nine other lawmakers, appeared likely to pass easily through the council until it became the subject of conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Mendelson said he had been part of discussions &ldquo;where folks have talked about whether the idea of reparations is controversial.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8203;&#8203;By Nov. 18, according to a committee report, the name of the legislation had changed. McDuffie has focused on reparations while in office, telling the outlet the council would somewhat regularly edit the names of bills and the new names &ldquo;were chosen in consultation with my colleagues to more accurately reflect the purpose of the measures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is important to recognize the ever-changing political landscape and understand when to pick a fight and when to be strategic and not pick a fight,&rdquo; McDuffie said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very delicate balance, one which the council must be cognizant of.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Robert White Jr. had planned to push a bill that would expand the size of the D.C. Council but told the <em>Washington Post<\/em> he was pausing his effort out of fear that a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">slow news day&#038;rdquo<\/a>; might make the expansion of D.C.&rsquo;s local government a centerpiece of talks and shut it down.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The District has to be strategic to not throw red meat in front of Republicans when they control the House, the Senate, and the White House,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since leaving office in 2021, President-elect Donald Trump has maintained a distaste for D.C. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3253290\/what-could-happen-to-dc-federal-workforce-under-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">its governance<\/a>. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly vowed to &ldquo;take over&rdquo; the city and bypass the local government in doing so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-overwhelmingly-votes-to-keep-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem\/\" title=\"Senate Overwhelmingly Votes to Keep U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem\">capital city<\/a> so there is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime,&rdquo; Trump said in July. &ldquo;But, rather, it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world. Right now, if you leave Florida &ndash; let&rsquo;s go, darling. Let&rsquo;s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let&rsquo;s look at the Washington Monument. Let&rsquo;s go and look at some of the beautiful scenes, and you end up getting shot, mugged, raped.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1905717\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1905717\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC Council aims to avoid Trump\u2019s scrutiny by using neutral bill names<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2377864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DC-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38555,35821,5894,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2377863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dc-council","tag-government-relations","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DC-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377867,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377863\/revisions\/2377867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}