The GOP chairs of House Education and the Workforce and Oversight committees are demanding answers from Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the district’s police department over reports that they “refused” to clear pro-Palestinian encampments at George Washington University.
The encampments stem from the war between Israel and Hamas and have appeared across several college campuses across the nation, leading to several House Democrats and Republicans condemning university presidents and pro-Palestinian protesters as antisemitism rises. An encampment sprouted up at GWU on Thursday last week.
In a letter sent to Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
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