Happy Black Pride, DC!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ This is a time to celebrate the Black LGBTQ+ community and its diversity, resiliency, and love. Thank you Councilmember Zachary Parker for hosting a great celebration at Union Market! You can check out a full schedule of events here: dcblackpride.org/events-schedul…

Happy World Pride, DC! I’m proud my city is hosting this year’s global celebration!

Happening today: The DC Council will hold its first vote on my Peace DC Omnibus bill and critical parts of the Peace DC plan that I first introduced in March. The votes will ensure these measures can be passed and implemented this summer to help make our communities safer and

Peace DC passed at first vote today! ☮️ ✅ Safe passage for student safety ✅ Make permanent rebuttable presumption for pretrial detention for the most violent crimes ✅ Get more MPD officers on the force ✅ Survivor benefits for Fire & EMS workers who die as a result of their

🚨 Update: Judiciary & Public Safety Budget Recommendations pass out of Committee! I prioritized investments in public safety & workforces, Access to Justice, and victim services. We also merged our violence interruption programs under the Office of Neighborhood Safety and

We are investing in safe and thriving communities, interrupting cycles of violence and supporting underserved residents, and bolstering our public safety workforce! Check out some highlights from our Judiciary Committee budget recommendations passed out of Committee today!

Catch me on the Politics Hour today at noon on WAMU 88.5 with Kojo Nnamdi and Tom Sherwood. I’ll unpack what happened this week at the Council  — the future of violence interruption, Peace DC, RFK, and whatever is on your mind! Click here to listen live at 12pm:

Councilmember Pinto has been serving DC residents as the Ward 2 Councilmember for 5 years this month! Here’s a look at some of the many highlights 👇🏻

This week, the DC Council passed Councilmember Pinto’s Peace DC Omnibus👇🏻

It was great hearing from constituents at Stead Park!

It’s RFK hearing day at the Council! Over 500 people have signed up to testify to be a part of the future development deal of the RFK campus. ♥️💛 What I’m hearing: bring the Washington Commanders home ✅ provide housing ✅ keep the fields open ✅ chairmanmendelson.com/live/

BIG news in DC today! 👇🏻

Nothing is more important to me than the safety of District residents and visitors. The best way to keep our city safe is through our local government and local law enforcement who know our neighborhoods and know how to prevent and fight crime. Thanks for having me

Catch me on Wolf Blitzer The Situation Room at 11:15 this morning to discuss the latest on what we’re doing to keep DC safe.

We must continue to make safety a reality for everyone in DC. The way to accomplish this is by bolstering our local police department and hiring more officers, preventing crime before it happens, holding perpetrators of crime accountable and getting illegal guns off our streets,

National Guard troops have arrived in Washington, D.C., to execute Trump’s order to address crime. DC Councilmember Councilmember Brooke Pinto joins The Weeknight to respond.

I’ll be joining ABC News Live at 2pm to discuss the federal interference in DC and how the DC government is continuing to work to keep our city safe. You can watch live here: Abcnews.go.com/Live

There are meaningful ways for the federal government to work with us to protect the public: ✅U.S. Attorney’s Office increasing prosecution rates ✅U.S. Senate filing judicial vacancies on our local courts ✅Congress fixing the $1 billion budget hole it left us with so we can

Everyone deserves to live indoors in stable and dignified housing. We have made great progress in securing housing for people experiencing homelessness in DC -- decreasing homelessness by 20 percent in the last five years. We must continue to do more to get people in housing,

The federal interference in our city is hurting local businesses and tourism. Restaurant, hotel, and business operators and workers are telling me their reservations are down, many employees are afraid to come to work, and fewer customers are coming out. What’s happening in our