When the Washington Commanders and the D.C. government announced a historic deal to bring the Commanders home to the RFK Stadium site, they set a July 15 deadline. But a back and forth between the mayor and the Council threatened to set the timeline back.
The D.C. Council unveiled legislation aimed at debating the deal outside from talks about the city’s 2026 budget.
“No one should infer from the introduction of this bill that funding in the Mayor’s proposed budget for the Washington Commanders Football Team is in jeopardy,” Council Chair Phil Mendelson said in the bill’s introduction. “Council members have said they support leaving the funding, as proposed by the Mayor, in the budget.”
Mendelson introduced the “Robert F. Kennedy Campus Redevelopment Act of 2025” on June 20, which separates the RFK bill from Mayor Muriel Bowser’s “Budget Support Act.”
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