Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Sunday called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take additional steps to secure the nation’s capital ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
In a letter to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, Bowser called for several specific steps to be taken, including an extension of the special security period surrounding the inauguration, the declaration of a pre-disaster zone, and increased coordination between federal law enforcement agencies to secure federal buildings with the hopes of allowing D.C. police to respond to the city’s other needs.
The statement called Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol an “unprecedented terrorist attack” and called the measures outlined in her letter “essential to demonstrating our collective resolve in ensuring the Constitutional transition of power and our nation’s capital in the day’s leading up to it.”
I strongly urge the United States Department of Homeland Security to adjust its approach to the Inauguration in several specific ways, and have outlined them in the following letter to Acting Secretary Wolf. pic.twitter.com/GaxUWfFbxk
— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) January 10, 2021
Bowser asked Wolf to expend the already-declared special security period from its current duration of Jan. 19 to Jan. 21, to Jan. 11 to Jan. 24. She also asked the Justice Department to direct the FBI to provide daily security briefings from Jan. 11 to Jan. 24 and the Department of the Interior to cancel any public gathering permits approved for that period to be canceled and to not issue any new permits.
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<p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>JUST IN: DC mayor calls on Homeland Security Dept for increased security measures surrounding Biden inauguration https://t.co/CZuTr33zwH pic.twitter.com/6y1j2lna9a</p>— The Hill (@thehill) January 10, 2021
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