Ankit Jain

And Congress can, for example, extend his control of the police force for more than 30 days.

Congress can repeal local D.C.

laws that they don't like because we're not a state.

And that is where the president has already said he's going.

He said he's gonna ask Congress to take actions.

And the good news for us is that it takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate and pass any of these laws that he's talking about.

And that means that Senate Democrats can stop any of the further actions that the president is talking about from happening.

And so what we need is for Senate Democrats to stand strong with D.C.

and say, no, we're not going to be complicit in the president's takeover of Washington, D.C.

We're not going to participate in this, not just as an act of charity for the people of D.C.

Of course, we hope that they support D.C., but as an essential aspect of protecting their cities and their constituents, because this is coming to a city near them next.

And so what I don't want to hear is, you know, 30 days from now,

that Congress has passed a law that takes even more rights away from Washingtonians and for congressional Democrats to say, well, Trump and the Republicans did this to D.C.

If that happens, it'll be Senate Democrats who did this to us.

And we have the ability to stop this from happening.

And we need Senate Democrats to stand strong and make sure that they vote against any of these efforts to participate in the Trump takeover of Washington, D.C.

Thanks for having me.

I'm happy to do it.