Washington Informer: Mayor’s Budget Proposal Would Zero Out DOEE Funding for Key Challenges

D.C. Council member Charles Allen. Photo: The Washington Informer.

From The Washington Informer:

The fight between Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council over the Fiscal Year 2024 budget promises discord on all fronts. A steep slowdown in revenue growth, combined with the end of pandemic-era federal funding, has meant that some major cuts seem all but inevitable; but the mayor’s office, the D.C. Council and community advocates don’t agree on where the cuts should come from. 

Bowser’s proposal included a 14% reduction to the Department of Energy and Environment’s (DOEE) operating budget. Environmental and public health advocates, along with Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6),  who chairs the Committee on Transportation and the Environment, say the proposed cuts would harm D.C.’s most vulnerable residents and throw the city off-track to meet its climate goals.