Yep, for ~700,000 plus residents, but wait! There's more:
" The council approved the budget after a significantly longer than usual, and fiscally challenging, budget season, which began when Congress slashed the city's 2025 budget. During the hours-long debate Monday, lawmakers were still trying through 11th-hour amendments to find ways to enhance programs including a child care subsidy, housing vouchers and health care for low-income Washingtonians and undocumented immigrants efforts that largely were not successful."
" Toward the end of the debate, the council chambers erupted in protest, as Mendelson asked the chamber be cleared and about 20 protesters yelled at lawmakers from outside the chamber to decry the cuts to social services, chanting "funding the rich, killing the poor" and "shame on you, council."
Sophia Bos-Shadi, lead organizer with the Fair Budget Coalition, said the protest was necessary because council members opted against tax increases that would have restored cuts to housing and child care programs and instead moved forward with a budget that would cause tens of thousands of D.C. residents, including many undocumented immigrants, to lose or see cuts to their health care coverage."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/07/28/dc-council-budget-vote-rental-act/
Expenditures work out to $30,000 plus per citizen and they are just figuring out that chronic failure to pay rent to the DC Housing Authority on the part of thousands of renters causes budget shortfalls. And paying for illegals' healthcare and childcare.
" The council approved the budget after a significantly longer than usual, and fiscally challenging, budget season, which began when Congress slashed the city's 2025 budget. During the hours-long debate Monday, lawmakers were still trying through 11th-hour amendments to find ways to enhance programs including a child care subsidy, housing vouchers and health care for low-income Washingtonians and undocumented immigrants efforts that largely were not successful."
" Toward the end of the debate, the council chambers erupted in protest, as Mendelson asked the chamber be cleared and about 20 protesters yelled at lawmakers from outside the chamber to decry the cuts to social services, chanting "funding the rich, killing the poor" and "shame on you, council."
Sophia Bos-Shadi, lead organizer with the Fair Budget Coalition, said the protest was necessary because council members opted against tax increases that would have restored cuts to housing and child care programs and instead moved forward with a budget that would cause tens of thousands of D.C. residents, including many undocumented immigrants, to lose or see cuts to their health care coverage."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/07/28/dc-council-budget-vote-rental-act/
Expenditures work out to $30,000 plus per citizen and they are just figuring out that chronic failure to pay rent to the DC Housing Authority on the part of thousands of renters causes budget shortfalls. And paying for illegals' healthcare and childcare.
“If you’re going to have crime it should at least be organized crime”
-Havelock Vetinari
-Havelock Vetinari
