Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

With D.C.'s government governed by the Constitution and the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, any Trump executive order ...

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is trying to keep the Trump administration at bay while refusing to budge on one ...

President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind congressional efforts for a federal takeover of the nation’s capital, saying he approves putting the District of Columbia back under direct ...

Who governed Washington, D.C. before D.C. Home Rule: From 1874 to 1967 ... There would also likely still be elections for the DC Board of Education as the right for Washingtonians to elect ...

WASHINGTON (7News ... Several GOP congressional members also proposed legislation to revoke Home Rule. However, DC officials noted that crimes, especially violent ones, saw a decrease in ...

GOP lawmakers in Congress are proposing treating the city like a federal agency in their latest spending bill.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has taken an often-measured, muted approach to Trump since the president returned to power and ...

The District of Columbia could face a $1 billion budget shortfall after House Republicans introduced a continuing resolution ...

Trump has several means to reshape local politics in Washington, unique to the city ... they could even undo a 1970s-era law called the Home Rule Act which allows the nation’s capital to largely ...

WASHINGTON — D.C. neighbors have ... when Congress passed the Home Rule Act. It instated the mayoral office, the DC Council, the attorney general, and other measures to establish a local government.

The House spending bill holds the city's budget at fiscal year 2024 numbers, even though the District's 2025 budget is based ...