President Donald Trump said the House of Representatives should “immediately” pass a bill that would stop Congress from cutting more than $1 billion from D.C.’s budget – as he continues to level harsh criticism at the city and its leaders.
Trump called for the House vote in a social media post Friday morning.
“The House should take up the D.C. funding ‘fix’ that the Senate has passed, and get it done IMMEDIATELY. We need to clean up our once beautiful Capital City, and make it beautiful again,” the post said in part.
D.C. has been in suspense about the fate of more than $1 billion in the city’s own funds after language in the continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown repealed D.C.’s current year budget and forced a return to the prior year’s spending levels.
Mayor Muriel Bowser and other District leaders said a cut from Congress to how D.C. can spend city funds would force devastating cuts to public services, the police department and city schools.
