With the nation's capital facing a pair of overlapping budget crises, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled a budget proposal that bets heavily on business-friendly policies designed to boost investment and move the city away from dependence on a dwindling number of federal jobs.
“We have a shifting economy and if we don't shift with it, we'll have a city that people flee,” Bowser said Tuesday as she presented her proposals to the public — and to the D.C. Council, which will now begin debating the plan. “If you don't have enough money, something has to go or you have to make more money.”
