As you may have already heard, Congress has blown a hole in the District’s budget by withholding local $1 billion of our own local funds. This failure puts essential public services at risk—sanitation, public safety, health care, and more. It directly threatens our jobs.

The Senate quickly passed a fix, the District of Columbia Local Funds Act, 2025 (S. 1077). President Donald Trump supports a quick fix, saying “The House should take up the D.C. funding ‘fix’ that the Senate has passed and get it done IMMEDIATELY.”