DC mayor says crime-fighting efforts will be affected by budget holdup on Capitol Hill

DC mayor says crime-fighting efforts will be affected by budget holdup on Capitol Hill

Fresh off announcing a new effort at cutting juvenile crime, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expressed frustration Thursday over the fact that D.C. is still waiting for congressional action that would allow it to spend $1 billion in its 2025 budget. Last month, the Senate passed a measure that would allow the District of Columbia to choose how it spends the funds in its budget, reversing a piece of the budget bill that gave the federal government contr…

The mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, expressed her grave concern over the current budget stalemate in the Capitol, which poses a major threat to crime prevention efforts in the city. During the previous month, the Senate passed a provision empowering the District of Columbia to manage its own budget resources. This action corrects a portion of the previous budget law that conferred on the federal government authority over the financial …