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

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

D.C. Mayor Bowser and House Republicans face off over a $1.1 billion budget amendment that could impact school weeks, city ...

District of Columbia officials have argued for statehood for decades, but the movement has received significant pushback from Republicans.

The Senate on Friday passed a bipartisan fix to prevent an immediate $1.1 billion cut to the Washington ... executive order to end Washington’s home rule. Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA ...

The Associated Press Tears roll down the face of Starlette Thomas, of Bowie, Md., as she holds a chunk of pavement ...

Congress is poised to pass a President Trump-endorsed funding bill this week that Washington ... While D.C. was granted what’s known as “home rule” in the 1970s, Congress still approves ...

making the city’s budget inextricably tied to a national political debate that has Washington tumbling toward a government shutdown. D.C.’s allies in Maryland, Democratic Sens. Chris Van ...

Patty Murray (D-Washington), would keep D.C ... D.C. residents mobilized by the group Free DC, which has been organizing to defend D.C. home rule. Some yelled out to senators as they speed ...

As D.C.’s budget and autonomy comes under threat by the Trump administration, Congressman Jamie Raskin suggests erasing the ...