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DC mayor says crime-fighting efforts will be affected by budget holdup on Capitol Hill – WTOP News
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expressed frustration Thursday over the fact that the city is still waiting for congressional action that would allow it to spend $1 billion in its 2025 budget.
Fresh off announcing a new effort at cutting juvenile crime, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expressed frustration Thursday over the fact that D.C. is still waiting for congressional action that would allow it to spend $1 billion in its 2025 budget.
Last month, the Senate passed a measure that would allow the District of Columbia to choose how it spends the funds in its budget, reversing a piece of the budget bill that gave the federal government control over how D.C. spends its money. D.C. officials said that restriction would limit them to their 2024 levels — effectively a $1 billion funding cut.
While the Senate’s “fix” to the original, more restrictive spending plan has been endorsed by President Donald Trump, it’s not clear when the House will get to work on the issue or whether House members will try to tack on other legislative language to the bill.
Standing at a podium at an outdoor news conference, with D.C. police officers behind her, Bowser told reporters, “If our budget doesn’t pass and we have to look more closely at overtime spending for public safety officials, that will have an impact on crime!”
“We need to have our budget issues resolved at the Congress, and we need it done as soon as possible,” she added.
Bowser also referenced the Department of Government Efficiency, a team within the Trump administration that’s tasked with slashing federal spending, and the cuts to a wide swath of federal agencies.
“We want everybody to be treated fairly, and any personnel actions to happen legally,” Bowser said. “And, quite frankly, we think that the pace of these separations has to stop. It has to slow down so that all of those things can be done properly, or rethought completely.”
Bowser said what happens when things “are not well thought through, is that some of the consequences are unintended, but they’re predictable.”
The U.S. House of Representatives is back in session on April 7.
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WASHINGTON (7News) — A teenage boy was fatally shot Saturday night in Northeast Washington, D.C., according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
ALSO READ | Boy, 17, hospitalized after being shot near group home in Southeast DC
Fifth District officers responded around 8:24 p.m. to the 1600 block of Gales Street Northeast for a report of a shooting. That is in the Rosedale / Kingman Park neighborhood.
When officers arrived, they found a juvenile male unconscious and not breathing with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Authorities said the victim is believed to be a teenager. His identity was not immediately released.
Police are searching for a juvenile male suspect described as Black and wearing a black shirt and black pants. According to investigators, the suspect was last seen near 16th Street and Rosedale Street Northeast riding a black bicycle.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating the shooting.
SEE ALSO | Teen hospitalized following Friday night shooting in northeast D.C.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at (202) 727-9099 or submit an anonymous tip by texting 50411.
WASHINGTON (7News) — A man was stabbed to death in Northwest D.C. early Saturday morning, according to D.C. police.
SEE ALSO | Police shoot knife-wielding individual at Fairfax Wawa
Officers responded to the 2900 block of 14th Street NW shortly before 1:00 a.m., where the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
SEE ALSO | Teen hospitalized following Friday night shooting in northeast D.C.
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact the police at (202) 727-9099 or text a tip to 50411.
Additional details were not immediately available.
4 things to know about the weather:
- Beneficial rain
- Muggy, warm temperatures to start the weekend
- Scattered afternoon showers & a few storms again Saturday
- Drier and nice for Sunday
There’s a 40% chance of showers and a few storms in the afternoon and evening Saturday.
Sunday looks like it will bring the best weather of the weekend. We’ll start to see some cooler, drier air come in.
Big-time heat may be coming right back to the D.C. area by Wednesday of next week.
Weather radar
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10-day forecast
QuickCast
SATURDAY:
Partly sunny
Muggy
Scattered showers & storms (40% chance)
Highs: middle 80s
SUNDAY:
Decreasing clouds
Lower humidity
Highs: mid 80s
MONDAY:
Mostly sunny
Highs: upper 80s
SUNSET: 8:35 p.m.
AVERAGE HIGH: 89° // AVERAGE low: 72°
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