President Donald Trump spoke Friday about spending $2 billion on beautifying D.C.
“We’re going to be raising about $2 billion from Congress,” the president told reporters. “Congress is happy to do it.”
Trump has talked about refinishing roads and sprucing up light poles around the capital.
“It hasn’t been clean” he said. “Now it’s going to be clean.”
The suggestion comes after Congress took more than $1 billion from D.C.’s budget this year.
An obscure change in a federal government funding bill forced the District’s government to revert to its 2024 budget parameters, effectively cutting $1.1 billion from its previously balanced budget midway through the financial year.
The Senate approved the funding bill with the cut but immediately followed up with a separate bill that would make the District’s budget whole again. That bill has languished in the House of Representatives for months while Mayor Muriel Bowser was forced to make drastic moves to avoid layoffs. The hard feelings over the issue remain intense.
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