The battle between the top Republican and Washington, DC may see another wrinkle next month when the Congress returns to the race against the clock to stop the government shutdown by the end of September.
Local leaders said that the previous shutdown Shodown left the district with a budget hole of about 1 billion after finishing its local expenses plans. And on September 30, the funding deadline comes as a tension between Republican and Democrats in the district, hitting the fever pitch amid the rift of President Trump in the capital.
DC Council member Christina Henderson said on Friday that local leaders are in discussion with a cardinal spending on Capital Hill to prevent history from repeating themselves.
Henderson said, “We are continuing our conversation with our appropriations and four corners in the Congress, because we know that sometimes the politics of the White House is very different from the politics of the appropriation in the context of the investment,” Henderson said.
In the 1970s, DC was known as “Home Rule”, but its budget is still approved by the Congress.
In March, the Congress passed the government at the end of the financial year, or at the end of September, mostly fiscal 2024 levels passed a GOP-stopgap to fund the government.
But unlike the previous stopgap funding bills, the measure passed in March specifically gave up the language, allowing DC to spend its local budget – which includes most of the local tax dollars, fees and fines mostly funds – already approved at 2025 levels.
As a result, DC officials stated that the district was forced to spend its financial 2024 levels like federal agencies under the stopgap – despite running at its updated budget levels for about half year.
At that time, the top GOP appropriations stated that the long -lasting provision was accidentally abandoned despite some democratic doubts. But when the Senate approved a bill to measure the issue quickly and unanimously, the house has not yet moved forward on it after about six months after hard-line conservatives. Pushing leadership for delay Measures when putting pressure on new “requirements” for the district to spend your local dollar.
Since then, the House Republican has led several attempts. DC advocates have criticized as “Anti-Hom Rule”, including moving forward Objectively Non-American citizens from voting in local DC elections. Some Republicans in the Congress are also canceling domestic rule.
The next funding as Trump is directing a major federal crime crack at Battle Karghe DC, he has made the local police department federal, has deployed more than 1,000 national guard soldiers in the country’s capital and directed federal agents from the FBI; Drug Enforcement Agency; Alcohol, tobacco, firearm and explosive bureau; And immigration enforcement to help patrol the roads.
Republicans are happy with their efforts and are agitating to continue them – even if Shared data City leaders show that crime was already decreasing in recent years.
Trump, however, challenged those figures, and accused the city of producing “fake crime numbers to create false confusion of security”. He also warned DC Mayor Murial Boseer On friday “Immediately stop giving figures of false and highly wrong crime, or bad things.”
In this, Trump has described the truth as “a full and total federal acquisition of the city” on the truth.
Trump on Friday indicated interest to reporters in progress of the city, indicating interest in moving ahead in the city that he planned to Greenlite the Congress to improve the district.
“We are going to beautify this place within a period of 12 months,” he said.
Grover M for Federal Budget at Heritage Foundation in a major orthodox think tank. Herman Center Director Richard Stern said that he is expected to take another turn between Trump and DC.
Looking back at the shutdown fight of March, Stern said on Friday that the Congress’s “casual” DC budget cut “a casual test case arose.”
“I think the Democrat who came out of it went away saying, ‘Well, we are in a less strong position on it, as much as we thought we thought,’ and Republican went away saying, ‘We are publicly in a strong position as we thought we were,’ he said.
A YouGov survey released earlier this month It was found that about half of Americans are being “strongly” or “to some extent” DC police are being deployed to federal control and National Guard soldiers in the city.
But a close look found a sharp division from the party’s identity. Less than 10 percent of respondents approved the move, identified as Democrats, compared to 26 percent of people, who had identified as independent.
Meanwhile, 74 percent of the republican-identified respondents approved the recent action by the administration.
“Since then everything has gone in favor of the Republic of the Congress, what is happening with the views of DC and people about it, all the way to deploy the National Guard, and it is quite popular, if it is not very popular among the elected Republicans, then alone, orthodox base,” said.
“Because of all this, I think that is why it is on the table is a strong thing for Republican.”
Despite this, the district cut $ 1.13 billion in its already approved Budget Authority, Boussar office. Said in May It was capable of preventing the dollar, protecting the dollar for “public safety and public education ecosystems”, trimming, furlings and convenience.
However, it cited several measures as a result of the decrease, including a hiring freeze, cuts at the cost of personnel at $ 63 million “, and it made more than $ 200 million more than $ 20025 to more than $ 20025.
Henderson said on Friday, “You don’t want to re -do the same situation,” you know, you know, you are beating the city on the head, which you are not enough on public safety, and then you are really saying that we cannot spend your money on what you asked to fix us. ,
“It’s fruitless, but crazy things have happened,” he said.
