DC mayor urges Trump to end shutdown over severe city impact

WASHINGTON (AP) — The mayor of Washington, D.C., has written a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to end the partial federal government shutdown.
WTOP-FM reports Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Wednesday letter says the city, its residents and its businesses will severely suffer if the shutdown continues.
A quarter of the federal government shut down Saturday in a long-running fight over funding for Trump’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. About 420,000 federal workers have bee