There’s no shortage of House Republicans who want Congress to have complete authority over the District of Columbia. It’s just hard to find one who is eager to fix the city’s budget issue that Congress created.
As the city drafts plans for furloughs, building closures and cuts to public safety services to help accommodate the $1 billion hole Congress blew in its $21 billion budget in the last government funding bill, House Republicans have more or less forgotten about the issue.
“Boy, that’s gone quiet, hasn’t it? I haven’t heard anything about that in a while. I have no idea what the current status is,” Rep. Keith Self told NOTUS. He added that he thought the city was so “poorly managed” he couldn’t spare any sympathy for the district’s incoming cuts, anyway: “Congress probably is going to have to take over the management of D.C.”