D.C. Wire Archive: City Finances
House Republicans propose deep cuts to District, Metro budgets
House Republicans unveiled a spending resolution Friday night that would cut federal payments to the District by nearly $80 million and slash Metro funding by $150 million over the next eight months, as the GOP seeks to fulfill its campaign pledge to rein in government outlays.
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Ben Pershing
| February 11, 2011; 9:19 PM ET |
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House GOP proposal to cut D.C. budget stands little chance of passage
A proposal by House GOP conservatives to cut the District's budget has alarmed local officials, but the plan has little chance of becoming law.
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Ben Pershing
| January 21, 2011; 1:52 PM ET |
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Gandhi warns D.C. bond rating might fall
Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi welcomed Mayor Vincent C. Gray and Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown to their new posts with a letter warning that District's hard-earned bond rating is in danger of falling with the depletion of reserves and any subsidy of United Medical Center. Gray (D) repeatedly...
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Nikita R Stewart
| January 6, 2011; 4:55 PM ET |
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Council modifies welfare proposal
The D.C. Council is stepping away from its position to gradually remove all long-term welfare recipients from the rolls, instead embracing a proposal to punish only those families who do not take advantage of job training and placement programs.
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Tim Craig
| December 21, 2010; 11:26 AM ET |
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Omnibus spending bill would cut D.C. funds by 1 percent
The District will get $11 million less from the federal government in 2011 than it did in 2010, if a newly released Senate version of an omnibus appropriations bill becomes law.
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Ben Pershing
| December 14, 2010; 3:41 PM ET |
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Council poised to enact unpaid furlough for city workers
The D.C. Council is poised to approve a revised 2011 budget today that calls for all non-essential city employees to take four furlough days on holidays, meaning they will not get paid time off on those days.
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Tim Craig
| December 7, 2010; 1:59 PM ET |
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Budget, City Finances, D.C. Council, D.C. Employees, Kwame Brown, Tim Craig, Vincent C. Gray
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