In year of budget cuts, Mayor Muriel Bowser bets big on downtown D.C.

They struggled to be heard from the back of the room, shouting as Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) tried to ignore them.

“Are you on the side of billionaires, or the working-class people of the District of Columbia?” one person yelled, as a demonstration broke out at the tail end of a budget forum Bowser held before releasing her proposal.