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March 11, 2026

What Would Happen If Trump Revoked Home Rule

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What Would Happen If Trump Revoked Home Rule

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Anyone paying attention to the DC mayor’s race knows that for all the talk of affordability or crime that all mayors have to deal with, there’s one central issue that’s unique to DC: Home rule. Today we’re revisiting a conversation we had last year with Howard University’s Robinson Woodward-Burns about what home rule is, how it happened, and how it might go away. 

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