During his coronavirus press briefing Monday evening, President Trump was asked if D.C. should get the same level of coronavirus relief as the 50 states — which thus far it has not. Trump said he would consider whether D.C. should get more funding in the next round of relief funding, but added: “The mayor seems to be very happy with everything we’ve done.”

The president’s comment stands in contrast to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s statements over the past couple of weeks. She has sharply criticized a provision in the $2 trillion recovery bill that classifies D.C. as a territory, meaning it gets less than half the funding each of the states received.

“The very idea of being treated like a territory is shocking, it’s infuriating, it’s wrong it’s outrageous,” Bowser said in March.

In response to the president, Bowser said in a statement that she was grateful for federal assistance to fight the coronavirus — for example, thanking the CDC and FEMA for providing new instruments that can quickly process COVID-19 tests. But Bowser said she had again raised the issue of this funding shortfall during a call with the vice president and the nation’s governors this afternoon.

“The District of Columbia is designated as a state for every other aspect of emergency response,” Bowser said in the statement.

While each state gets at least $1.25 billion of direct aid, D.C. gets only about $500 million, despite having a larger population than two states, Vermont and Wyoming. District leaders argue that, even though D.C. is not a state, it is frequently treated like one when it comes to federal funding. And its residents regularly pay more in federal taxes per capita than residents of any state.

Across the board, District leaders — and some elected officials from Virginia and Maryland — argue D.C. should get funding on par with the states and have pledged they’ll work to make up the gap in the next round of federal relief.