I joined my D.C. Council colleagues on Capitol Hill today to meet with House Republicans and explain how their proposed continuing resolution will hurt the District of Columbia by forcing us to slash public safety and education funding, all of which we pay for with locally generated revenue. This continuing resolution would cut around $1 billion from the District’s local operating budget. We would need to make immediate public safety, education, and other cuts. Law enforcement, teachers, firefighters, and other first responders would be furloughed. And none of this would save the federal government any money. It would only force D.C. leaders to make decisions that put our constituents at risk, many of whom are members of Congress’ staff, or their children, or their families.   

We must be able to spend our locally raised dollars locally – on keeping the District safe, on providing stable, secure, and productive schools for our children, and on creating a clean, livable, vibrant city for all residents.