March 11, 2025
Federal cuts strip $1.1B from DC budget as unemployment jumps 20%
Congress cuts $1.1 billion from DC budget as punishment
💵Tax & Budget💰Economy🏙️Local Issues
Congress froze DC fiscal year 2025 budget at 2024 levels on Mar. 11, 2025
Freezing stripped $1.1 billion from DC general fund
DC unemployment claims jumped 36% to 1,780 in week ending Feb. 8, 2025
Nationwide unemployment claims fell 3% during same period DC claims spiked
15,000 contract employees dependent on federal projects face layoffs
Mayor Bowser must cut $410 million from housing, mental health, and public safety
DC raises 75% of its own revenue but lacks voting representation in Congress
💵Tax & Budget💰Economy🏙️Local Issues
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Q1
How much did Congress cut from the District of Columbia’s budget by reverting it to FY 2024 spending levels in the full-year continuing resolution passed on March 11, 2025?
Q2
Does the District’s revised fiscal year 2025 budget include a pull back on the Universal Family Leave program, as reported by The Georgetowner on June 2, 2025?
Q3
Did the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (P.L. 119-4), enacted March 15, 2025, cut Washington, D.C.’s locally funded FY 2025 general fund by $1.1 billion, exceeding the nearly $945 million reduction initially projected by the House continuing resolution proposal?
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Does D.C.’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget eliminate the new refundable Child Tax Credit program, established by D.C. Law 25-217 to take effect for taxable year 2025, before it had a chance to disburse benefits?
Q5
Which D.C. Council member publicly led opposition to the March 2025 federal cuts that stripped $1.1 billion from the city's budget?
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Muriel Bowser
Mayor of Washington DC
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DC Delegate to Congress