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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over 90 closed this year. 70 last year. 2026 probably will close 100 more. They can't afford to pay the wages and stay open.[/quote]

WFH is killing them.[/quote]

Not anymore. I just no longer want to go into DC since the National Guard has occupied it. It's just too depressing, between that and half the white house torn down.

Some of my coworkers, who are foreign nationals and here legally, are afraid to go into DC as well, since they are brown. [/quote]

I’m not a trump apologist at all, but frankly find this ridiculous. I live in Logan Circle and there aren’t that many national guard walking around. [/quote]

That's fine. But I don't live or work in DC and used to come from the suburbs on the weekends to eat out or go to an event. Just find it too depressing now and want to hunker down at home. [/quote]

DP, but I also think the economic effects of DOGE are playing a big role. I’m a fed married to a contractor. Between months of wondering if we’d have jobs followed by 43 days without pay (and who knows what is coming in the new year), we’re not exactly going out to eat a lot. And when we do it’s going to be nearby in Arlington where we live, not DC.

I had to RTO to DC (“returning” to an office I had never been to in my decade-long career) where I get to see the joyous presence of the NG and it’s actually made me less likely to want to go into DC on the weekends. It used to be fun to pop into the city a couple times per month for a show or dinner out. But now I’m like meh, I want to stay close to home b/c I’m tired from the commute. So contrary to what Bowser hoped for, I spend way less $ in DC than I used to. And sadly I have no interest in going to whatever the F the “Trump-Kennedy Center” is becoming. I feel sad for the longtime performers there.[/quote]

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