US House to vote on the “reckless” budgetary of $ 1 billion in Washington DC | Washington DC

Washington DC found itself in the Donald Trump reticle and Congress Republicans in recent weeks, with efforts both to exercise more control over the massively democratic capital.

The president signed on Thursday a decree which, according to him, would make Washington DC “sure, beautiful and prosperous” by intensifying fights on crime, arrests of undocumented immigrants and the treatment of permits to transport concealed weapons. Trump ordered JD Vance separately from “deleting a bad ideology” of the Smithsonian Institution, which has many museums in and around the city.

Weeks earlier, the Congress Republicans approved a reduction of $ 1 billion to the city’s budget that the mayor, Muriel Bowser, would cause disturbing police, schools and health services. The Senate quickly rushed to cancel the reduction, an effort that Trump has approved since, but we do not know when the House of Representatives will act.

“The room should resume the” correction “of DC funding that the Senate has adopted and do it immediately. We have to clean our magnificent capital and make it beautiful again,” wrote the president on Friday.

The forays into city policy occur despite Bowser’s efforts to improve his previously tense relationship with Trump, notably by the Jacquier of Place Black Lives Match located near the White House. Although the executive public security decree has been planned for a long time, the drop in the budget was a surprise that was promulgated as part of a federal government spending bill adopted hours before closing.

Tazra Mitchell, responsible for the policy and strategy of the Tax DC Policy Institute Thinktank, said that a reduction in this magnitude to the city’s budget would go beyond its borders and affect transit and health care systems shared with Maryland and Virginie Voisins.

“We are taught as a child, if we make a mistake, we have, and we try to do better and correct the evil that we have caused. And what we have seen is that the American house had this opportunity and chose not to correct the evil,” said Mitchell.

The legislation, written by the Republicans of the Chamber and the use of the capacity of the Congress to review the laws of Washington DC, omits a language approving its budget for the financial year 2025. This prevents the City from spending its own tax revenue collected locally and obliges a reversion to the levels of expenses of 2024, with devastating effects probably on its municipal services.

“These are local dollars. This does not save federal money. We are halfway through our exercise, and the reduction now would be reckless,” said Bowser at a press conference after the spending bill was approved.

Although she did not say that when the cup would take effect, the mayor warned that “if we had to make a billion dollars at the moment … We have to go where the money is in our budget to reduce this quickly. And our best areas of spending are schools, public security and social services. ”

We do not know how the language approving the budget of Washington DC was withdrawn from the federal expenditure bill, but just after having adopted the Senate, the Republican Susan Collins described omission as “an error” and the Chamber unanimously adopted its legislation to remedy it.

In the House, the Republican leaders did not say when they would put him for a vote, and a spokesperson for the president, Mike Johnson, did not respond to a request for comments. After Trump weighed, Punchbowl News reported that the Chamber would probably vote on the measure in early April.

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Rosa Delauro, the best democrat of the Credit Committee in the Chamber, tried to obtain a language approving the city’s budget was added when his chamber adopted the expenditure bill, but the Republicans refused. “President Johnson continues to hang out by putting the DC financing solution on the ground of the House of Representatives. This should never have happened,” said Delauro. “President Trump is right to call on the House to adopt the bill that the Senate has already adopted unanimously.”

Some president’s allies have encouraged the passage of the fix, including the national fraternal police order, which has warned of a “fairly serious” impact of public security if the funding is not restored. The American Enterprise Institute on the right has described the “deeply unhappy” financing cup, while Ed Martin, the American acting lawyer of Trump said this week to Johnson asked Johnson to put the fix.

Some aligned on Trump consider the correction as a lever effect that should be used in the city. Before Trump poses to me, Andy Harris, president of the far -right Caucus Freedom Caucus, told The Hill that the transition from the measure should be delayed because her group needs “a little time to find a list of the requirements that we should put on DC”, and criticized the city to spend “dollars in a way that in the past, we thought we were quite stupid”.

Zack Smith, a principal legal researcher at the Conservative Heritage Foundation, described in The Daily Signal a series of policies that Congress could impose on Washington DC in the corrective, in particular the ban on non-citizens to vote in local elections, preventing the city from spending money for undocumented immigrants and giving federal prosecutors as an adults.

If the leaders of the Chamber agreed, it would be the last example of Congress, Democrat and Republican, interfering in the affairs of a city which, according to many residents, should be a state.

“It is not even a budgetary drop. It is really like a power entry on the DC budget,” said Alex Dodds, co-founder of Free DC, a group that defends the autonomy of the city. “There is simply no way that people in the congress or this president know what we need better than us.”