Linda Harllee Harper will lead the Office of Gun Violence and Prevention as well as the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement.

Bowser and Contee said criticisms over the aggressive federal response to racial justice protests in summer 2020 impacted how federal officials responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The money is coming from D.C.’s allotment from the $1 billion federal Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund, which was created as part of a COVID-19 relief bill.

“We have to get back to that cycle of making sure that our children are vaccinated,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday.

The changes to the mayor’s proposed $19.5 billion budget were unveiled a day before the D.C. Council is set to cast its first vote on the spending plan.

Republicans have repeatedly invoked Nazism and the Holocaust to oppose pandemic-related policies, with the most recent invocation coming in response to D.C.’s upcoming vaccine mandate for businesses.

Thousands of rapid COVID-19 tests have been given out to D.C. residents since last week, a stark contrast to supply-starved stores and surrounding jurisdictions with limited or no supply of their own.

Last year we had a pandemic. 2021 saw an insurrection — and a pandemic.

The bill would have prevented encampment clearings until April 1.

Some lawmakers feared the bill would make it virtually impossible to clear homeless encampments in public spaces, and wanted time to refine the language.