Senate passes bill to prevent $1 billion cut from DC city budget

The Senate on Friday night voted to pass a bill that prevents Washington, D.C., from being hit with a $1 billion budget reduction, after they were warned that a Continuing Resolution (CR) passed earlier included the cut.

City officials warned the Senate that the House's CR mistakenly reduced the city's annual budget. Plans to fix the issue were supported by President Donald Trump, and the GOP chairs of both the House and Senate appropriations committees, per The Hill.

The Senate approved by voice vote that the city's budget, which has to be approved by Congress, would remain operating at the adopted fiscal 2025 budget.

“This bill would simply fix a mistake in the House [CR] that prevents the District of Columbia from spending its own tax dollars as part of its budget, which Congress routinely approves,” Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Susan Collins said. “Congress approves the authorization of the expenditure of D.C. local funds, which are paid for by D.C. tax revenues."

The vote comes the same day that the upper chamber approved a six-month stopgap bill, largely along party lines. The CR will still need to be signed by President Trump by midnight to avoid a government shutdown.

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