Qatar Paid D.C. Mayor Bowser $61,930 to Visit Middle East in 2023
The investigation revealed that Bowser has not turned in any travel expense records. Bowser never turned in records for her trips to the Master’s tournament, Las Vegas, Mar-a-Lago, Dubai, or Doha.
Interesting.
Scott Taylor of WJLA 7 discovered Qatar paid D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and four staff members $61,930 to visit the Middle East for a Climate Change Conference.
Why is it always Qatar? Why!?
EXCLUSIVE: The nation of Qatar paid $61,930 in travel expenses for @MayorBowser & 4 staff members in 2023 for a trip to the Middle East.
The Mayor's Office said the trip was covered by DC's Chamber of Commerce which wasn't true and then it said it was paid by the U.S.… pic.twitter.com/ST22NIa5gz
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylorTV) April 28, 2025
Taylor reported that Bowser’s Director of Communications, Susana Castillo, claimed the D.C. Chamber of Commerce paid for the trip.
That is not true, according to an email Taylor received from the Chamber
Then Castillo said the U.S. Conference of Mayors footed the bill.
Nope. The Conference of Mayors directed Taylor to the mayor’s office.
Taylor’s investigation revealed that Bowser has not turned in any travel expense records.
Bowser never turned in records for her trips to the Master’s tournament, Las Vegas, Mar-a-Lago, Dubai, or Doha.
Taylor received his information after requesting documents via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA):
It shows the nation of Qatar paid more than $61,000 for Mayor Bowser’s trip to Doha in 2023, which included travel expenses for four staff members.
Qatar called it an “in-kind donation”. The mayor and her team then jetted over to Dubai for the Climate Change convention.
D.C. has no record of a donation agreement with Qatar, which is required by D.C. Code.
Now comes this letter, from February, sent to officials in Qatar amid our investigation. In the letter, the mayor’s office asks for a breakdown of the mayor’s 2023 trip expenses and the total tab covered by the Middle Eastern country.
Bowser’s office explains that such “donations” must be properly recorded, and a donation agreement will have to be executed.
7News would like to know why the mayor’s office is asking to create a Donation Agreement in 2025 for a trip she took in 2023. A situation that directly violates Mayor Bowser’s memorandum on rules of conduct governing donations requires that each donation be submitted and approved by the Office of Partnerships and Grant Services before the city can enter into a Donation Agreement.
Yeah, why did Bowser submit this donation agreement in 2025 for a trip in 2023? Also, why did the deputy general counsel send the letters?
Here is the letter from @MayorBowser Office to Qatar asking last February for $61,930 of travel receipt’s for her 2023 trip along with 4 staff members to the Middle East country.
It also asks Qatar to help the Mayor put the toothpaste back in the bottle & sign a Donation… pic.twitter.com/iQu0OdgXky
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylorTV) April 28, 2025
The report indicates that the office must submit all donations “for travel outside of the United States” and be approved by Lindsey Parker, Bowser’s chief of staff.
Parker joined Bowser on the Qatar trip. She submitted one receipt showing the trip “cost taxpayers $3,500 for a 3-night stay at the fabulous Atlantis-Palm hotel.”
Taylor wrote on X regarding the donation agreement not getting approval: “A situation that directly violates Mayor Bowser’s memorandum on rules of conduct governing donations requires that each donation be submitted and approved by the Office of Partnerships and Grant Services before the city can enter into a Donation Agreement.”
Parker and Castillo want Taylor to talk off the record. He said no.
Taylor asked Bowser’s office numerous questions:
- Why did you tell 7 News the mayor’s 2023 trip to Dubai was paid for by the U.S. Conference of Mayors?
- Why isn’t there a Donation Agreement from the Qatar Government for the $61,930 donation to the Executive Office of the Mayor on file with the district?
- Can the mayor or the EOM [Executive Office of the Mayor] provide 7 News with a detailed travel expense record for her trip to Doha?
- Are the Mayor and the EOM under an ethics investigation regarding her office and her undocumented travel?
- Please provide the other 4 names of the staff members who went on the trip.
- Lindsey Parker stayed at Atlantis, the Palm Hotel, and the Water Park in Doha. Did the Mayor and four other staff members stay at the same hotel?
- What has the Qatar Government given back to the Mayor of Washington, DC, in trade or business since the mayor’s visit in 2023?
- Why did the EOM reach out to the Embassy of the State of Qatar on February 12, 2025?
- Who paid for Mayor Bowser and Senior Advisor Beverly Perry’s trip to Mar-A-Lago to visit President Trump?
Excellent questions. It is suspicious that the deputy general counsel sent the letters about the donation agreement. Does that mean an internal investigation has started?
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It is my understanding that Qatar’s lobbying footprint in D.C. is greater than that of the much-maligned Israel lobby.
Not to mention Qatar’s footprint on the campuses of the U.S.’s allegedly “elite” universities. Yet, you won’t hear a word criticizing or vilifying Qatari donations and Qatari lobbyists, from the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats.
No problem! She has the race card and knows how to use it!
If power it your highest goal you might as well use it.
Mariachi bands?!?
That was meant as a reply to rabid wombat.
Like another profession, probably paid to leave….
It’s almost as if it would be a good idea to have mandatory disclosure when politicians or supervisory govt staff receiving anything of value from any foreign person, gov’t or entity with draconian penalties for failing to comply.
They already have this. What would be a good idea is firing them and criminal punishment the moment they refuse to comply like this. But rarely do they get any serious punishment. I believe when caught all of their retirement gained from taxpayers should be donated to Habitat for Humanity to build housing for the poor.
Ahh another angry black female grifting in the spirits of BLM and the late lamented Saint Floyd. Someone should check her real estate portfolio for mansions.
BTW: I would happily see her reimbursed with any possible charges waived if she would immediately resign. move to Qatar and never say another word for publication.
“She submitted one receipt showing the trip “cost taxpayers $3,500 for a 3-night stay at the fabulous Atlantis-Palm hotel.”
No shit, she literally said “fabulous?”
She might as well just hold her wrists out for the cuffs.
Another Democrat who never imagined that the rules applied to HER.
Well, it’s not as if she got caught and convicted of smoking crack, like her illustrious predecessor. Who the citizens immediately re-elected.
But he was ‘set up’.
Corruption is deep in politics
This is my shocked face. DC has a long history of corrupt politicians especially in the mayor’s office. Where there is money and power you will find the most venal individuals.
Where there is money and power and no accountability you will find the most venal individuals.
Minor fix.
Isn’t this a FARA issue as well. She received a quid pro quo from a foreign government for attending one of their events. Someone should dig into see if she implemented any green policy that would result in buying from that countries green industries.
Why is it always Qatar? Why!?
Because they are so stinking rich they want to rule the world (by owning all of the people who look like they’re ruling the world).
The first priority of any grifter politician is to determine what degree of corruption is acceptable to the majority of the electorate, and Washington has a very accommodating culture.
marion barry is their crack smokn women beating hero
what do you expect
leftists are terr orists by nature
And Berry got re-elected after his prison sentence!