The House voted Wednesday to block D.C. from decoupling its local tax code from President Donald Trump’s federal tax cuts — an action that city officials warned would cause the nation’s capital to lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and require it to suspend the local tax filing season for months.
The GOP measure, known as a disapproval resolution, passed on a party-line vote of 215 to 210.
If it passes in the Senate, the effort would mark the second consecutive year in which D.C. is facing a financial hurdle during its annual budget season because of congressional action — a unique challenge with which no other city must contend.
The disapproval resolution blocks D.C. from opting out of various provisions of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill in its local tax code, a step the D.C. Council took in November to boost revenue by roughly $600 million through 2029. The council also committed a portion of the anticipated revenue to funding a local child tax credit, which would make D.C. the first city in the nation to do so, and an expanded earned income tax credit.
