The Republican Party spending bill will reduce one billion dollars to the capital’s budget

The STOPGAP tunnels bill paid by Republicans is pushing to avoid closing at the end of the week that will effectively reduce the budget of Colombia County by about one billion dollars during the next six months, a change that local leaders warn of dramatic discounts on basic services.

The discounts are under study due to a series of legislative dodges that Republicans use to force the region, which is a democratically black city with a large number of federal workers, to accommodate the same freezing to its local budget that they apply throughout the federal government. President Trump, who clarified government employees, said he wanted to “take over” the capital

Under the law that established the “rule of the house” in Washington for more than 50 years, Congress maintains power on the city, including the final approval of its annual laws and budget. Historically, Congress included a routine language in spending bills that agree to the capital’s budget, which is funded by about 75 percent of which through local revenues.

But the Republicans deleted the usual language from the temporary spending bill, which is scheduled to vote in the House of Representatives early on Tuesday. This prompted Washington’s fate to a political discussion center on US government financing. Democrats can seek to prevent this procedure in the Senate, but with the deadline on Friday waving on the horizon to maintain the flow of federal financing, they can earn them to blame the government’s closure.

The bill will greatly freeze federal spending at the levels approved last year, and if passed as currently written, it will also force the capital to return to low spending levels in its budget approved by Congress in 2024.

This would lead to a reduction of $ 1.1 billion in the middle of the road during the fiscal year. The province will require a reduction of 16 percent of all the remaining money that has not already been spent, according to a memorandum from the mayor’s office, Morel Boser, who was sent to legislators during the weekend.

At a press conference outside the Capitol on Monday, the leaders of the capital urged Congress to reconsider the management of temporary spending, saying that the effects of freezing may be “destroyed” for the city, which leads to the demobilization of workers in public safety and public schools.

Given that the freezing of the budget will come after six months of the city’s fiscal year, the boycott will need a stampede within days to find one billion dollars from savings from now until the end of September.

Since many of these funds were linked in contracts, rental contracts and the doctor, each of which takes time to reach, local officials warned that the most urgent goal of discounts is the salaries of city workers, including police and teachers.

“There is no way to reduce this type of money at a time when we will have in this fiscal year in this fiscal year not to affect the police or not to affect teachers and not to affect some basic government services that allow us to preserve our city clean, safe and beautiful,” said Ms. Busir, who is a democracy explicitly sought by the desire for a global adult.

Mrs. Busir said she was in contact with the White House.

“They indicated that he did not come from them,” she said.

Local officials complained that it was not fair to extend the spending of Republicans who agreed to apply for the federal government to Washington, because most of the money in the city budget comes from the residents of the capital, not federal sources.

“It is not truly savings, because these are DC dollars,” said Phil Mendelson, Chairman of the Capital Council. “Most people, unfortunately, in this country they believe that Colombia’s boycott is funded by the federal government. We are not.”

Most of the boycott funds are created through local revenues. Another 24 percent comes through federal scholarships, while less than 1 percent comes from direct federal funds.

The capital must submit a balance balance plan for five years, and Mrs. Busir last April I suggested about 500 million dollars of discounts For the city’s programs, including eliminating the program that gives salaries to child care workers and early education teachers. The Capital Council reflected most of these cuts, including by restoring $ 70 million to the Child Welfare Program.

Actor Eleanor Holmes Norton, a democratic who represents the province of Colombia as a delegate but had no vote in the House of Representatives, suggested on Monday a modification of the Stopgap bill that will allow DC to move forward in its budget as planned.

“The capital has not been dealt with as a federal agency for financing purposes for more than 20 years, specifically because doing so can force the dramatic cuts overnight on basic services, including police, sanitation and schools,” said Mrs. Norton. “Discounts on these services will work against the declared goal of the Republicans of improving public safety and order in the capital.”

But it seems unlikely that Republicans will agree to his adoption.

Republicans in Congress increasingly sought to influence the governance of the capital. Last year, the Republican Party’s home I voted with big margins Two decisions refused to cancel a pair of laws approved by the Capital Council.

They also used adjustments to the spending of bills to prohibit the city’s ability to impose taxes, regulate the sale of cannabis, and prohibit the spending of city money on abortion services for Medicaid recipients.