D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announced Thursday that he would veto a city council bill that would have singled out the retail giant Walmart and forced it to pay a minimum $12.50 hourly wage, far above the district’s $8.25 minimum hourly wage for other businesses.

In a letter to the council, Gray said the law would be a “job killer” for the city that would eliminate more than 4,000 positions in the first years of its enactment.

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