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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully, unless the CR is written to include clarifying language that this does NOT effect DC's budget it won't get the 60+ votes that it needs in the Senate. (ie. it needs 7 Democrats in the Senate to vote yes assuming all Republicans do.)[/quote]

The Democrats don't care either.  We are on our own as always.

[b]Wish Bowser had made the hard budget decision of cutting from the billions in new spending that have been added over the last few years before it came to this[/b].  [/quote]

What does this mean??[/quote]

It means that spending was greatly expanded since the pandemic.  This was largely done on the back of pandemic and IRA grants that reduced the cost of some of that spending.

Yet while the costs were reduced at the time the programs implemented often created long term spending obligations.  The various health care, housing, school and transportation expenditures for example.

We have known for quite some time now that that new spending was unsustainable and that the post-pandemic bill was coming due.  Had we been more proactive about cutting our budget then we wouldn't be needing to scramble now.  We need the rainy day fund that we drew down when things were good.

TLDR: Trump sucks but we could never afford to be as generous as the Council has been recently.  Free IVF, free housing, free food, etc [/quote]

+1  I was really pleased to see some of the ways that DC used pandemic emergency funds - one time bonuses to ECE teachers, housing assistance, etc.  But then the pandemic ended, and the funds went away, and . . . they just kept spending money that we did not have anymore to meet emergency needs that no longer existed.  We had the lowest unemployment in a generation and they were giving people to pay their rent for years on end.  It didn't make any sense from any angle, except that they refuse to believe that there is any need to prioritize.  [/quote]

The emergency needs may not have existed for you, but it did for a lot of other people.[/quote]

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