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 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,

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will find herself testifying before a Congressional committee Wednesday with a hostile Republican majority intent on grilling her and three other Democratic mayors on their limited cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.