Bowser hiking local fund appropriations 6% to counter Congress’s roll back on DC budget

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser notified Congress that she is boosting the city’s fiscal 2025 budget by up to 6% to make up for Congress’s spending cuts for the city.

In a letter to Congress, Bowser said she was using a 2009 statute “that allows the city to increase an approved budget up to 6% if revenues indicate that we have those revenues.” This increase could add nearly $700 million to the current budget, helping offset the budget cuts required by the House’s continuing resolution that set the city’s 2025 funding back to 2024 levels.

“This action is necessitated by the removal of standard language in the Full-Year Continuing
Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (‘Full-Year CR’), which would have permitted the
District to expend local, budgeted revenues at the already

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