Trump and Allies Weakened DC Into an Easier Occupation Target

President Trump flooded Washington DC with armed forces armed in the context of the conservative pretext of the facts attracting facts: city management is unable to govern, which has led to an exploitation of crime (this is not the case), which makes the country’s capital of a hell of a hell.

This will surprise the many families of tourists eyeing the Gaggles of the National Guard held at Union Station and at the shopping center and at the quay.

But before Trump reaches the Old DC standbys to justify his occupation, he and his republican allies in the congress did everything they could to weaken the district earlier this spring. They used the lack of true autonomy in the district to retain more than a billion dollars of his own money, paid by his own taxpayers, in the midst of the fiscal year.

“It was unprecedented. The congress has definitively engaged in surpassing,” TPM Tazra Mitchell, Director of Policy Policy Institute, told TPM Tazra Mitchell. “These are local DC dollars. These are not dollars collected by the federal tax code or the structure of the costs. This was an attack on DC’s budgetary autonomy. This did not allow the federal government for a single penny.”

This nonchalant flight has come in addition to the economic leak in Doge layouts, which revised downward income projections by a billion dollars shocking over the next four years, drawn by 40,000 expected job losses, according to the mayor’s office.

“We knew very quickly, even from the end of February in the Trump administration, that their reckless cuts were going to throw DC in a slight local recession,” added Mitchell.

Preventing DC from spending your own money, increasing its number of unemployment, forcing district leaders to promulgate mass hunting gels and to stop the programs that he intended to launch them all the city. And the worsening of the district economy has a direct link with its public security through the recruitment of the police, violence intervention programs and the maintenance of its poverty residents.

“You ask me to operate with one hand behind my back, then when I do not succeed, you want to punish me for that,” TPM Christina Henderson, the general DC council, told TPM.

DC cannot spend its own money

At first, when the Congress adopted a continuous resolution to keep the government open which reduced the DC budget of $ 1.1 billion in March, it seemed to be a mistake that even the Republicans wanted to correct.

Trump ordered the House Republicans to adopt the Senate bill to restore “immediately” funding; House president Mike Johnson (R-La) said he wanted to restore funding “as quickly as possible”, adding that “we will not delay this for political purposes”.

Months have passed and the hole in the budget remained unstoppted.

The senses. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Susan Collins’ bill (R-ME) to restore DC financing were adopted by the Senate immediately after the CR in March, but never received a vote in the House.

“It is the summit of hypocrisy for Donald Trump to abuse emergency powers in the name of public security improvement in DC while he and the Republicans retain more than a billion dollars of DC funds that could be used for public security,” Van Hollen told TPM.

And then, at the end of July, after the Republicans adopted Trump’s reconciliation package, Johnson returned the house early to the house to avoid continuing to vote on the publication of Epstein files.

“We were as shocked as everyone that President Johnson returned them early to the house because he no longer wanted to make Epstein votes,” said Henderson of the DC Council. “It also threw us – we hoped to be in the conclusion before recess.”

When the congress returns

The legislators will return to Capitol Hill next week while their long recess in August will end. An absolute priority will be to finance the government to avoid a closure before the money exhausted at midnight on September 30.

The two chambers worked on the adoption of credit law bills, but the process is far from complete. And with only a few weeks until the federal government is lacking in money, a continuous resolution will be part of the negotiations again.

Mitchell tells TPM that the DC fiscal Policy Institute fears that the district will be affected by another series of cuts in the next fight to finance the government for the next financial year.

“What we see with the National Guard is quite blatant … As happens, we also see a multitude of credit horsemen attached to the invoices of the Chamber who both overthrow some of the DC laws, but also restrict our expenses if we do not indicate that the Republicans wanted to do.” I fear that DC could be put on the blockage and – Essentially a rehearsal of what we saw in March. ”

Mitchell added that another possible cup in the district budget could come from the recent adoption of the reconciliation package of the Republicans, which includes cuts at Medicare state and the additional nutritional aid program (SNAP).

The precariousness of the district, because it is invaded by armed officers and desperately tries to repel economic pain, is a brutal reminder that the Democrats had the chance to make DC a state four years ago. So-CAPS. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) have chosen to maintain the filibusier compared to the state of DC, and the effort to influence them blocked early in the mandate of President Biden. Both have since left the congress.

“The need for real government autonomy through the state for DC residents has never been clearer,” said representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD). “The 700,000 provocative citizens and projects of taxpayers of the capital have the right to govern themselves without federal interference and constant partisan games.”