D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is facing allegations of hypocrisy over the District’s coronavirus restrictions after she traveled to Delaware for President-elect Joe Biden’s victory speech last Saturday.

On Monday, NBC 4 reporter Mark Segraves tweeted a photo of Bowser at the outdoor event and noted that Delaware is on her list of states considered high-risk for COVID-19 based on new daily cases. In the photo, Bowser is wearing a mask while standing next to her chief of staff John Falcicchio, her senior advisor Beverly Perry, and Biden advisor Symone Sanders, who are also all wearing masks.

Dc @MayorBowser & staff attended @JoeBiden victory speech in Wilmington, DE Saturday. Delaware on the Mayor’s list of “High Risk” states which would require quarantine after returning. Bowser staff says the trip was “essential travel” exempted under Mayor’s order. @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/GOAdajeENp

— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) November 9, 2020

The photo sparked a flurry of critical responses, with people alleging that Bowser was flouting her own coronavirus travel orders by failing to quarantine for 14 days upon her return to D.C. She held a press conference Monday with DC Health director LaQuandra Nesbitt and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.

In a statement Tuesday, a spokesperson for Bowser says the mayor’s trip to Wilmington for Biden’s speech was “essential travel.” “She went on Saturday evening and returned the same evening,” the spokesperson adds, noting that Bowser met with “a few people” on Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ team.

D.C.’s newest travel advisory went into effect Monday. Under it, residents who return from states designated high-risk no longer have to strictly quarantine for 14 days, but do have to monitor their health and limit their activities for that length of time—or until they receive a negative COVID-19 test result.

“The requirement for residents to self-quarantine for 14 days or to obtain a negative test does not apply to those performing essential work, insofar as they are going to work, or for essential activities such as obtaining medical care, food or pharmaceuticals (only if the resident does not have symptoms of COVID-19 and has not been exposed to an individual diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past 14 days),” says a Nov. 5 presentation from Bowser’s administration.

At an event for the opening of the Shepard Park Community Center on Tuesday, the mayor defended her trip as “absolutely essential.”

“I do a lot of things to advance the interests of the District of Columbia, and some of them are formal and some of them are informal, but all of them are necessary,” she said. When asked if she has been tested for COVID-19 since this weekend, Bowser responded that she is regularly tested based on her levels of exposure, and will continue to be regularly tested.

Still, some see her trip as contradictory with the rules that D.C. residents have been told to follow for months. The popular Instagram account Washingtonian Problems, which boasts more than 100,000 followers, shared Segraves’ tweet on its page, asking “hmm thoughts?”

The top comment reads: “Do as I say, not as I do.”