Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I am very concerned in this period of climate change wherein real time we are being hammered in many jurisdictions in…”

D.C. has not been treated as a federal agency for funding purposes in more than 20 years precisely because doing so can force dramatic overnight cuts to essential services, including police, sanitation, and schools.

This CR is an act of fiscal sabotage against the District of Columbia and an abuse of Congress' power over disenfranchised D.C. This CR will result in an immediate cut of more than $1 billion from D.C.'s $21 billion budget 6 months into…

Our local police force should not be subject to federalization, an action that wouldn't be possible for any other police department in the country.

With this bill, House Republicans have intentionally committed nothing short of fiscal sabotage against D.C.