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The battle between top Republicans and Washington, D.C., could see another wrinkle next month, when Congress returns to a race against the clock to prevent a government shutdown by the end of September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local leaders said the last shutdown showdown left the District with a roughly $1 billion budget hole after Congress overrode its local spending plans. And the looming Sept. 30 funding deadline comes as tensions between Republicans and Democrats over the District have hit a fever pitch amid President Trump\u2019s crackdown in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D.C. Council member Christina Henderson said Friday that local leaders remain in discussions with spending cardinals on Capitol Hill to prevent history from repeating itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are continuing our conversations with our appropriators and the four corners in Congress, because we know that sometimes the politics of the White House are very different from the politics of appropriators in terms of actually doing appropriations,\u201d Henderson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D.C. was granted what\u2019s known as \u201chome rule\u201d in the 1970s, but its budget is still approved by Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress in March passed a GOP-crafted stopgap to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, or late September, at mostly fiscal 2024 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But unlike previous stopgap funding bills, the measure passed in March notably left out language allowing D.C. to spend its local budget \u2014 which consists mostly of funds from local tax dollars, fees and fines \u2014 at already approved 2025 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, D.C. officials said the District was forced to spend at its fiscal 2024 levels like federal agencies under the stopgap \u2014 despite running at its updated budget levels for roughly half a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, top GOP appropriators said the long-standing provision was left out in error, despite some Democratic suspicions. But while the Senate quickly and unanimously approved a bill to remedy the issue, the House has yet to move on it almost six months later after hard-line conservatives pushed leadership to delay the measure while pressing for new \u201crequirements\u201d for the District to spend their local dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, House Republicans have led multiple efforts D.C. advocates have criticized as \u201canti-home rule,\u201d including advancing legislation aimed at blocking non-U.S. citizens from voting in local D.C. elections. Some Republicans in Congress have even floated repealing home rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next funding battle looms as Trump is directing a major federal crime crackdown in D.C. He has federalized the local police department, deployed more than 1,000 National Guard troops to the nation\u2019s capital and instructed federal agents from the FBI; Drug Enforcement Agency; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and immigration enforcement to help patrol the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans are cheering his efforts and agitating for them to continue \u2014 even though data shared by city leaders shows crime had already been decreasing in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has challenged those figures, however, and has accused the city of producing \u201cfake crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety.\u201d He also warned D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday to \u201cimmediately stop giving false and highly inaccurate crime figures, or bad things will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That includes what Trump described on Truth Social as a \u201ca complete and total federal takeover of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump signaled interest in wading further into the city\u2019s operations, telling reporters on Friday that he plans to ask Congress to greenlight $2 billion for improvements in the District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have this place beautified within a period of 12 months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Stern, director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, said he expects the growing clash between Trump and D.C. to take another turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back on March\u2019s shutdown fight, Stern said Friday that Congress\u2019 \u201caccidental\u201d cut to the D.C. budget \u201cgenerated an accidental test case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think what came out of it is Democrats walked away from it saying, \u2018OK, we\u2019re in a less strong position on this in public than we thought we were,\u2019 and Republicans walked away from it saying, \u2018We\u2019re in a stronger position publicly than we thought we were,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A YouGov survey released earlier this month found that almost half of Americans \u201cstrongly\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d disapproved of D.C.\u2019s police being put under federal control and National Guard troops being deployed in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a closer look found a sharp divide by party identification. Less than 10 percent of respondents identifying as Democrats approved of the move, compared with 26 percent of those who identified as independents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, 74 percent of Republican-identifying respondents approved the recent actions by the administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything since then has gone in congressional Republicans\u2019 favor about, what\u2019s going on with D.C. and people\u2019s thoughts about it, all the way up to Trump deploying the National Guard, and that being popular enough, if not very popular among elected Republicans, let alone, the conservative base,\u201d Stern said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause of all that, I think that\u2019s why this is on the table is a strong thing to Republicans in a push for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite what the District called a $1.13 billion cut to its previously approved budget authority, Bowser\u2019s office said in May that it was able to prevent layoffs, furloughs and facility closures, while protecting dollars for \u201cpublic safety and public education ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it has cited a number of measures it took as a result of the reduction, including a hiring freeze that cut back on \u201c$63 million in personnel costs,\u201d and it made \u201c$175 million of non-personnel services reductions\u201d and shifted more than $200 million in spending and costs for workforce investment and housing production from fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2026 and 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to have the same situation happen again,\u201d Henderson said Friday, \u201cwhereas, you know, you\u2019re beating the city over the head talking about you\u2019re not doing enough on public safety, and then you\u2019re literally saying we can\u2019t spend our money on the thing that you told us to fix.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s nonsensical, but crazier things have happened,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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