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This has REAL consequences for DC in the not-so-distant-future.....“In no other part of our country are Americans facing the loss of basic municipal or state services due to the federal government shutdown,” Gray wrote Tuesday to Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), demanding face-to-face meetings to plead the city’s case for an exemption from the shutdown. The District government is affected by federal shutdowns because, unlike the states, its budget is appropriated by Congress. Those appropriations — even of locally generated tax revenue — have stopped.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 01:52:49 +0000

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