DC braces for $1 billion deficit from federal workforce cuts

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Anonymous wrote:DC stores are already closing up and leaving due to crime. Looting and smash and grab. Streets look empty. Now with no employees working, all the small business carry outs are going to lose and close. Empty office spaces. Bars and restaurants look empty. DC starting look like a ghost town.

lol oh no! What ever will happen??

[Anonymous]

I see a lot of cars in maryland with dc tags. I guess dc residents are shopping in maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC stores are already closing up and leaving due to crime. Looting and smash and grab. Streets look empty. Now with no employees working, all the small business carry outs are going to lose and close. Empty office spaces. Bars and restaurants look empty. DC starting look like a ghost town.

Streets looked empty for years now in the business areas because nobody was commuting to the office. This won't change now because they just got rid of most of these jobs and buildings will be sold. We will have to see what happens to these sold buildings, likely some will be demolished.

[Anonymous]

Even workers who are back in DC aren't spending money because they fear they might lose their jobs soon or are pissed off that Bowser lobbied for years to bring them back and are boycotting DC businesses during the work week. No one is spending $35 per day on coffee and lunch breaks anymore. The streets will remain empty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They'll just raise taxes.

It’s pointless if there are 80% less wage earners to tax.

[Anonymous]

Where are you people that the streets are empty? K St and around the WH are all busy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why hasn't the Washington post ran an article about this yet?

Because it's owner doesn't want this news to negatively put Trump in a bad light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you people that the streets are empty? K St and around the WH are all busy.

With RTO, it's only going to get busier. Not to mention tougher to drive around.

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Anonymous wrote:They'll just raise taxes.

It’s pointless if there are 80% less wage earners to tax.

Are you saying that 80% of taxpayers leave DC altogether? What would do this? A lot of workers already left during Covid and never came back. They didn't pay local taxes because they paid where they lived. This revenue was lost long ago. What would prompt additional 80%?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"The Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce are expected to result in a $1 billion deficit over the next three years, the report estimates."

https://wjla.com/news/local/federal-workforce-cuts-doge-economy-washington-dc-budget-dcs-chief-financial-officer-revised-revenue-estimates-2025-to-2029-rojected-reduction-of-40000-jobs-or-21-percent-financial-period-buyouts-fired-local-economy-major-bowser

No problem. We'll just put in more revenue, er, speed cameras.

But there will be no MD or VA drivers to fleece. Rich DC residents ride bikes. Poor DC residents don't get charged the full fee. Womp womp.

Lots of poor D.C. residents ride bikes, too, but apparently cooks and busboys commuting to work are invisible to you.

Most poor ride the bus or take Metro. They are not the ones in cycling suits on the bike lanes.

No, but I would say half of the people I see cycling in NW do not look like they are going to white collar jobs. Stop being ignorant.

[Anonymous]

DC and the council need to prioritize keeping middle and high income residents in DC. Reduce affordable housing requirements in new properties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of cars in maryland with dc tags. I guess dc residents are shopping in maryland.

Sure no one uses Amazon in DC. I can get 75% of my orders delivered with in 2 hours but I am going to drive out to Maryland to shop?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of cars in maryland with dc tags. I guess dc residents are shopping in maryland.

There are a lot of cars in Virginia with DC tags too. It's almost as if they need to leave the city to get basic everyday items.

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Anonymous wrote:"The Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce are expected to result in a $1 billion deficit over the next three years, the report estimates."

https://wjla.com/news/local/federal-workforce-cuts-doge-economy-washington-dc-budget-dcs-chief-financial-officer-revised-revenue-estimates-2025-to-2029-rojected-reduction-of-40000-jobs-or-21-percent-financial-period-buyouts-fired-local-economy-major-bowser

No problem. We'll just put in more revenue, er, speed cameras.

But there will be no MD or VA drivers to fleece. Rich DC residents ride bikes. Poor DC residents don't get charged the full fee. Womp womp.

Lots of poor D.C. residents ride bikes, too, but apparently cooks and busboys commuting to work are invisible to you.

Most poor ride the bus or take Metro. They are not the ones in cycling suits on the bike lanes.

No, but I would say half of the people I see cycling in NW do not look like they are going to white collar jobs. Stop being ignorant.

Oh please share with us your vision of those who "do not look like they are going to white collar jobs." Who fits that demographic?

Stop being ignorant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of cars in maryland with dc tags. I guess dc residents are shopping in maryland.

Sure no one uses Amazon in DC. I can get 75% of my orders delivered with in 2 hours but I am going to drive out to Maryland to shop?

Not everyone in DC apparently! Amazon had to stop delivering in so parts of DC because their drivers were getting attacked and robbed.