Norton Highlights CBO Score on D.C. Budget Fix Bill and Calls on Speaker Johnson to Bring the Bill to the Floor for a House Vote
The CBO analysis showed the bill would have no impact on the federal budget because D.C.’s budget consists of locally-raised funds.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today highlighted the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score on a Senate-passed bill to fix the D.C. budget issue caused by the recent continuing resolution (CR). As expected, the CBO found that the bill would have no effect on the federal budget. The CBO released its analysis yesterday.
“For any who had remaining doubts, the CBO score definitively shows that it would cost the federal government nothing to enact the Senate-passed bill to fix an issue in the CR aimed at constraining D.C.’s ability to spend its own local funds for the rest of the fiscal year,” Norton said. “The treatment of D.C. in the CR is a radical departure from decades of congressional practice and could have devastating consequences for the District. I’m calling on Speaker Johnson to bring the bill to the House floor for a vote at the earliest opportunity.”
The House-passed CR omitted a longstanding provision that would allow D.C. to continue spending under its local fiscal year 2025 budget.
The following table is sourced from the CBO.
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