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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu held a raucous press conference in Beantown on Tuesday, daring Attorney General Pam Bondi to follow through on her letters to blue-city leaders threatening federal action over sanctuary city policies.
Wu, a Democrat, accused the Trump administration of being a party that “doesn’t follow the law.”
“At a time when this federal administration is already causing so much fear and harm in our communities, these threats are serious and consequential,” she said. The remarks came after the Trump administration warned it could sue or cut federal funds if cities refused to cooperate on immigration enforcement.
Wu noted Bondi demanded all recipients respond by Tuesday and offered her formal response verbally:
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left; Pam Bondi, right (Getty)
“Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures. Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law … You are wrong on the law, and you are wrong on safety.”
Wu went on to say the political right has it “wrong on cities.”
“The cities that live in your minds are totally foreign to the residents living in our cities. And we are picking up the pieces of your failures to deliver on your promises,” before accusing the Trump administration of increasing costs on Americans.
“Good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list,” she said to cheers from the crowd, which included a Mariachi group that performed in Spanish prior to her speech, a local preacher, and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass.
Wu then referenced Boston’s role in the Revolution, addressing Bondi once more and knocking her home state of Florida as late to the Constitutional party.
“We are gathered here today to show you who we are in Boston. More than 100 years before your home state was founded, Bostonians were across the street in Faneuil Hall, setting the…
