“The mural inspired millions of people and helped our city through a very painful period, but now we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference,” Bowser said in a statement. “The devastating impacts of the federal job cuts must be our number one concern.”

D.C. will make changes to the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the White House, Mayor Muriel Bowser said a day after a member of Congress introduced legislation demanding the District remove the painting or risk losing federal funding.

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation once trumpeted its Marxist desire to dismantle America and war on the nuclear family by saying on its website: "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and 'villages' that collectively care for one another."