After Congress cut Washington, D.C.’s, budget by over $1 billion in March, Speaker Mike Johnson said he wanted to pass a bill to restore the spending “as quickly as possible.”
“We’re not delaying this for some political purpose,” Johnson told reporters.
But with the House preparing to consider three other Washington-specific bills that would reduce the District’s autonomy this week while the budget fix bill remains unacted on, D.C. advocates say the speaker’s actions are much louder than his words.
