DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Criticizes Fencing Around White House: ‘That’s the People’s House’

BOWSER: "I just had a conversation with some of my team. And I am one of those people who grew up in Washington, D.C., and has been very accustomed to being able to have access to all of our federal facilities, going up on the Capitol grounds, you know, our congresswoman had to push back from not allowing sleighing on the Capitol, from being able to walk all way around the Supreme Court, to walk in front of the White House on both sides. Now all if that is under threat. I am also concerned that some of the hardening that they are doing may be not just temporary. So we would also have to push back from that. Keep in mind that is the people's house. It is a sad commentary that the house and its inhabitants have to be walled off. I think that is a sad commentary. We should want the White House to be opened up for people to be able to access it from all sides and I daresay that looking at traffic management permanently is also important."