D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser returned the fiscal 2025 budget to the D.C. Council on Tuesday without her signature, allowing the new sports gambling measure to take effect immediately. FanDuel’s app was back up and running again Wednesday morning and BetMgM and Caesars launched their apps citywide Wednesday afternoon.
D.C. residents who want to place bets on Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game or other sporting events on Tuesday will have to visit one of the city’s sportsbooks to do so.
The reason: D.C’s lone citywide mobile sports betting platform, run by FanDuel, stopped taking bets Tuesday because Mayor Muriel Bowser had yet to sign the fiscal 2025 budget that allows FanDuel to continue offering mobile sports betting.
The budget approved by the D.C. Council last month also opens the city’s mobile sports betting market to new operators, and the planned launches of platforms from BetMGM and Caesars Sportsbook are also on hold because Bowser has yet to sign the budget bill. Both had planned to roll out citywide mobile banking apps on Monday and BetMGM even had a media event and launch party scheduled at Nationals Park, where it operates a sportsbook, but had to cancel it.
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