She has held roughly a dozen prep sessions and hired outside counsel at $950/hour to gear up for a hearing Wednesday that is both a minefield and a potential political opportunity.

Mayor Michelle Wu “expects to pay” up to $650,000 in city funds to prepare for tomorrow’s congressional hearing on sanctuary cities, the mayor’s office told the Herald. “The prep sessions included staff from the Mayor’s Office,

Trump administration officials have targeted sanctuary policies, seeing them as a key impediment to deporting people in the large numbers he wants.