GOP spending bill seeking immediate $1 billion in cuts to DC budget

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
"FY 2025. The FY 2025 budget highlights are:
• $835.5 million for the District Department of Transportation, to include: $410.7 million for federal Highway Trust Fund supported projects which includes $47.2 million for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge Rehabilitation and $42.8 million for Benning Road Bridges and Transportation Improvements, $115.5 million for various locally funded projects including local street paving, streetlight management, sidewalks, alleys, stormwater and flood mitigation, fleet, equipment and transportation mitigation, $93.8 million for the H Street Bridge, $47.3 million for Streetscapes and Beautification, $48.3 million for safety improvements, $36.7 million for the 11th Street Bridge Park, $18.2 million for Urban Forestry, $18.1 million for Pepco Powerline Undergrounding, $16.3 million for Bridge Rehabilitation, and $16.7 million for Bus Priority and Efficiency;"

The 11th Street Bridge is the bike bridge.

If we eliminated the streetscapes, safety improvements, 11th St Bridge, and bus priority lanes plus the $32 million for the bike lanes that's almost $200 million of painless cuts.

It's interesting that you seize upon this array of stuff - all of which makes a positive contribution to the QoL in the city - and not the $600m giveaway to Ted Leonsis.

Obviously Ted is going to need to take a haircut as well but the long term viability of Chinatown is more important than any of those things mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Please let the Commanders find greener pastures

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
"FY 2025. The FY 2025 budget highlights are:
• $835.5 million for the District Department of Transportation, to include: $410.7 million for federal Highway Trust Fund supported projects which includes $47.2 million for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge Rehabilitation and $42.8 million for Benning Road Bridges and Transportation Improvements, $115.5 million for various locally funded projects including local street paving, streetlight management, sidewalks, alleys, stormwater and flood mitigation, fleet, equipment and transportation mitigation, $93.8 million for the H Street Bridge, $47.3 million for Streetscapes and Beautification, $48.3 million for safety improvements, $36.7 million for the 11th Street Bridge Park, $18.2 million for Urban Forestry, $18.1 million for Pepco Powerline Undergrounding, $16.3 million for Bridge Rehabilitation, and $16.7 million for Bus Priority and Efficiency;"

The 11th Street Bridge is the bike bridge.

If we eliminated the streetscapes, safety improvements, 11th St Bridge, and bus priority lanes plus the $32 million for the bike lanes that's almost $200 million of painless cuts.

The 11th St Bridge is a park dumb*ss.

It doesn't exist dumbass. It's an old river crossing that they want to turn into a bike path from Arlington. Would you rather fund that or HVAC systems at schools? It's the exact type of luxury project that should be the first to go.

Maybe you should learn a little bit about DC before opining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
"FY 2025. The FY 2025 budget highlights are:
• $835.5 million for the District Department of Transportation, to include: $410.7 million for federal Highway Trust Fund supported projects which includes $47.2 million for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge Rehabilitation and $42.8 million for Benning Road Bridges and Transportation Improvements, $115.5 million for various locally funded projects including local street paving, streetlight management, sidewalks, alleys, stormwater and flood mitigation, fleet, equipment and transportation mitigation, $93.8 million for the H Street Bridge, $47.3 million for Streetscapes and Beautification, $48.3 million for safety improvements, $36.7 million for the 11th Street Bridge Park, $18.2 million for Urban Forestry, $18.1 million for Pepco Powerline Undergrounding, $16.3 million for Bridge Rehabilitation, and $16.7 million for Bus Priority and Efficiency;"

The 11th Street Bridge is the bike bridge.

If we eliminated the streetscapes, safety improvements, 11th St Bridge, and bus priority lanes plus the $32 million for the bike lanes that's almost $200 million of painless cuts.

Sure, assuming that none of those projects have started construction yet even though the fiscal year is about half over, it would be easy to eliminate all of them. It seems like a bad idea to leave a bunch of street construction half-finished, though, if any have already begun?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
"FY 2025. The FY 2025 budget highlights are:
• $835.5 million for the District Department of Transportation, to include: $410.7 million for federal Highway Trust Fund supported projects which includes $47.2 million for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge Rehabilitation and $42.8 million for Benning Road Bridges and Transportation Improvements, $115.5 million for various locally funded projects including local street paving, streetlight management, sidewalks, alleys, stormwater and flood mitigation, fleet, equipment and transportation mitigation, $93.8 million for the H Street Bridge, $47.3 million for Streetscapes and Beautification, $48.3 million for safety improvements, $36.7 million for the 11th Street Bridge Park, $18.2 million for Urban Forestry, $18.1 million for Pepco Powerline Undergrounding, $16.3 million for Bridge Rehabilitation, and $16.7 million for Bus Priority and Efficiency;"

The 11th Street Bridge is the bike bridge.

If we eliminated the streetscapes, safety improvements, 11th St Bridge, and bus priority lanes plus the $32 million for the bike lanes that's almost $200 million of painless cuts.

The 11th St Bridge is a park dumb*ss.

It doesn't exist dumbass. It's an old river crossing that they want to turn into a bike path from Arlington. Would you rather fund that or HVAC systems at schools? It's the exact type of luxury project that should be the first to go.

Maybe you should learn a little bit about DC before opining.

Sorry, I confused it with Long Bridge which actually costs $5 million more than 11th Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Incluing $358 million for schools (combined for DCPS and charter) in the middle of the school year. This is devastating and enraging. What chances does this have of actually going through?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/09/dc-budget-congress-house-republicans-continuing-resolution/

Why couldn't the money be taken from somewhere else besides the schools ???

[Anonymous]

$1 Billion is obviously a lot of money, but it's only bout 5% of DC's total budget. It will suck of course, but DC will survive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
"FY 2025. The FY 2025 budget highlights are:
• $835.5 million for the District Department of Transportation, to include: $410.7 million for federal Highway Trust Fund supported projects which includes $47.2 million for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge Rehabilitation and $42.8 million for Benning Road Bridges and Transportation Improvements, $115.5 million for various locally funded projects including local street paving, streetlight management, sidewalks, alleys, stormwater and flood mitigation, fleet, equipment and transportation mitigation, $93.8 million for the H Street Bridge, $47.3 million for Streetscapes and Beautification, $48.3 million for safety improvements, $36.7 million for the 11th Street Bridge Park, $18.2 million for Urban Forestry, $18.1 million for Pepco Powerline Undergrounding, $16.3 million for Bridge Rehabilitation, and $16.7 million for Bus Priority and Efficiency;"

The 11th Street Bridge is the bike bridge.

If we eliminated the streetscapes, safety improvements, 11th St Bridge, and bus priority lanes plus the $32 million for the bike lanes that's almost $200 million of painless cuts.

The 11th St Bridge is a park dumb*ss.

It doesn't exist dumbass. It's an old river crossing that they want to turn into a bike path from Arlington. Would you rather fund that or HVAC systems at schools? It's the exact type of luxury project that should be the first to go.

It’s not a bike lane. And nobody is here making a coherent argument about how to cut $1 billion suddenly from DC’s budget. We’re here because this is another insane example of Trump’s chaotic and horrible presidency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$1 Billion is obviously a lot of money, but it's only bout 5% of DC's total budget. It will suck of course, but DC will survive.

We've already spent half of it because it's March. The fiscal year started in October and our budget was submitted and approved (through the previous cr's) in June. It's 10% of remaining funds in theory but since some of the FY25 increases weren't discretionary it's higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$1 Billion is obviously a lot of money, but it's only bout 5% of DC's total budget. It will suck of course, but DC will survive.

Do you own a house? Pay utilities? Have student loans? You do understand that there are fixed costs and variable ones? DC must fund pensions, WMATA, pay debt etc. There won't be an equivalent 5% cut across all areas because some areas (pensions and more) cannot be cut. So that means other agencies will take more than 5%. For schools, we are hearing 15% cuts over the entire school year budget but concentrated across just a few months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard conflicting info. Some say cuts will be immediate, others say they have six months to make cuts. Any idea which it actually is?

They will be immediate. They also just go back to DC’s reserve. Feds can’t take it. This was purely spite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please let the Commanders find greener pastures

Amen. We don't need to pour money into their pockets.

[Anonymous]

For anyone that lives in VA, Senator Warner committed to voting no, but Senator Kaine is still TBD. Call his office at 202-224-4024.

[Anonymous]

Can someone please post the actual text of the bill that causes the budget issue. And the text in previous acts that excluded DC? I tried to search for it and read it but it was over my head.

[Anonymous]

Are the Senate Democrats going to disappoint us again?