D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) wrote a letter to local residents Friday seeking to quell anxiety over the Trump administration’s federal takeover of Washington's law enforcement.

Under a provision in the district's Home Rule Act, President Trump earlier this week deployed National Guard troops and federal officials to patrol the streets in the nation's capital. Bowser has blasted the move as "unsettling and unprecedented."

“It has been an unsettling and unprecedented week in our city. Over the course of a week, the surge in federal law enforcement across DC has created waves of anxiety,” she wrote in the memo. "I was born one year before Home Rule became law, and while our autonomy has been challenged before, our limited self-government has never faced the type of test we are facing right now."

"My jobs are many right now. Part of my job is just managing us through this crisis and making sure that our government continues to operate in a way that makes DC residents proud," she added. "The first day of school is just over a week away, and our kids deserve a........

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