She has held roughly a dozen prep sessions and hired outside counsel at $950 per hour to gear up for the Wednesday hearing.

Mayor Michelle Wu “expects to pay” up to $650,000 in city funds to prepare for a high-stakes congressional hearing on sanctuary cities, the mayor’s office told the Herald. She hired the Cahill Gordon & Reindel law firm,

As Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 prepares for a grilling over the city’s sanctuary policies by the Congressional Oversight Committee, experts wonder whether the hearing is set to become a Claudine Gay 2.