An outspoken Trump critic in his first term, Bowser tried cooperation in his second. But that didn't stop the president from taking over the city's police department and sending in National Guard troops.

Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, D.C., says she has reached out to Attorney General Pam Bondi and hopes to hold a meeting soon.

Nothing about our organizational chart has changed and nothing in the executive order would indicate otherwise,” Bowser said. But Trump’s rhetoric was markedly different.