DC braces for $1 billion deficit from federal workforce cuts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see the comments to this thread. It’s amazing how many people hate the District an seem to be gloating over its decline. It should be the cultural capital of the region. But Americans hate their cities and love their crappy suburbs.

Whose culture? DC has a culture. You just don't like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see the comments to this thread. It’s amazing how many people hate the District a seem to be gloating over its decline. It should be the cultural capital of the region. But Americans hate their cities and love their crappy suburbs.

Loved DC until the pathetic response to the crime wave of 2021-2023.

Yeah. Good reason to trash a city of 700,000 people /s

[Anonymous]

Maybe Bowser will finally stop giving superfluous contacts to friends to do thibgs like install those unsightly flexiposts everywhere. She sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see the comments to this thread. It’s amazing how many people hate the District a seem to be gloating over its decline. It should be the cultural capital of the region. But Americans hate their cities and love their crappy suburbs.

Loved DC until the pathetic response to the crime wave of 2021-2023.

Yeah. Good reason to trash a city of 700,000 people /s

It trashed itself.

[Anonymous]

Exactly what your stupid mayor asked for. FORCE workers back to office. She was too dumb to understand what she was asking.

[Anonymous]

Que reverse gentrification. Let the flight begin.

[Anonymous]

DC residents voice budget priorities amid looming $1 billion deficit from federal cuts

Residents were asked: If you were forced to make a cut in programs, which areas would receive the biggest reduction?

47% said government operations
26% said public safety
15% said housing and economic development

That makes sense; government operations, public safety, housing and economic development are the most corrupt programs in this DC incompetent government.

https://wjla.com/news/local/public-safety-health-and-human-services-dc-residents-share-2025-budget-priorities-federal-workforce-cuts-doge-economy-washington-dc-budget-dcs-chief-financial-officer-revised-revenue-estimates-washington-mayor-bowser

[Anonymous]

It’s sad that the progressives on the council can’t look nationally and see the risks of pushing the far left agenda too far. If they lose support in the middle and provide enough ammunition for the populists we’re likely to see more federal intervention and could end up paying to take out the bike lanes we just paid to install

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Exactly what your stupid mayor asked for. FORCE workers back to office. She was too dumb to understand what she was asking.

Uh, a return to office does not automatically mean we have to lay off thousands of feds. Very few feds took the Fork buy out, less than the normal attrition numbers for the year, even though you'd think if RTO were really that unpopular, more would have. Most feds I know are willing to go back to the office full time, albeit reluctantly for many (the flexibility of WFH even just one day a week is very hard to give up, especially for parents).

It's perfectly reasonable for the mayor of a city to support in-office requirements for one of the city's biggest employers. They could have done RTO and not done layoffs.

I hate Muriel Bowser for other reasons, but supporting RTO was a no-brainer for her and I support that position in DC government. Obviously we don't support gutting the federal workforce, especially not in this vindictive, haphazard, cruel and irresponsible way. No one here asked for that, including Mayor Bowser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see the comments to this thread. It’s amazing how many people hate the District a seem to be gloating over its decline. It should be the cultural capital of the region. But Americans hate their cities and love their crappy suburbs.

NP and I live in DC. I don’t see this as gloating in its decline. But the city council has failed to address our budgetary issues for awhile now. And the city’s response to everything is to spend more money without a meaningful way to bring in more revenue. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time.

[Anonymous]

Time for another gentrification. Get in early.

[Anonymous]

The report warns that the District's economy is expected to enter a mild recession in FY 2026, with GDP contracting by 1.9 percent, before beginning a gradual recovery in FY 2027.

[Anonymous]

Couldn’t have happened to a better mayor. F her for pushing RTO so aggressively

[Anonymous]

F you Bowser and all the voters supporting you.

[Anonymous]

Repainting and renaming BLM Plaza might help.