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The lack of measures leaves DC in the floating and faces hundreds of millions of dollars from this year's budget, which could lead to strong reductions in city services. This is because the Congress led by Republicans, when he passed a Stopgap Financing Act in March, routinely charged the standard language in claims to approved the city's budget. Without the approval, Washington had to return to the financing level of last year, which corresponds to a value of around 1.1 billion US dollars in half of the financial year of $ 1.1 billion.

Republicans and democrats quickly moved to fix the topic. Immediately after the passing of the federal expenditure, the Senate was largely approved by a separate bill and continued to operate with the DC without interruption under its current budget. At the time, President Trump asked the house to “immediately” say goodbye to what the top republicans signaled that they would do so.

But almost two months later, this legislation has not yet appeared in the house.

“Nobody talks about it,” said representative Andy Harris, Republican of Maryland and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. “We just don't see the urgency.”

Spokesman Mike Johnson said reporters this week that he had assured Mayor Muriel Bowser last month that he would try to “pass the invoice” as soon as possible “, but he did not state a timeline and stated that he did not have enough support to exist as in his current form.

“I had a conversation with the mayor a few weeks ago,” said Johnson on Tuesday. “This is not a political cause that we do. It's just about managing our schedule. I have to build a consensus around him to ensure that we have the voices and we are working on it.”

As part of this consensus building, Mr. Johnson would probably have to change the legislative template in order to calm the right flank of his party, which would like to prevent DC from spending money on programs and guidelines that are not with conservative priorities.

“We believe that the freezing of expenses for DC is not a bad idea, and if you want to increase your expenses, we should use some restrictions,” said Harris.

Although he has not published a formal list of changes that the group would propose, Mr. Harris said that the freedom okus would probably insist on providing a provision to the abolition of the Washington law in order not to enable citizens' votes and also prohibit payments for black residents.

Several Republicans, including Mr. Harris and representative Tom Cole von Oklahoma, Chairman of the Mittela committee, have also announced that the draft law should contain a language that prevents DC from issuing taxpayers dollar – locally or federal – for abortion services.

In the absence of a fix, the city has exposed the pressure on the congress members to advance the bill. After the congress had come without her last month because of a two -week break, Ms. Bowser went with her plans to close the financing gap, order the city's expenses and set freezing points, including overtime for the police and fire brigade, and the option of increasing the possibility of vacation in the future.

But some Republicans say that DC meets her priority list again.

“At least for me that was not in the foreground,” said representative Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee and a member of the Kaucus. “Because of the reconciliation, we are all busy in our committees.”

The urgency may also dump Ms. Bowser's decision in April to use a federal law from 2009 in order to increase local funds by 6 percent this year and to restrict the billion dollar gap to $ 410 million.

Mr. Ogles said that he would urge the DC by lifting the 52-year-old Home Rule Act, which enables the residents of DC to choose a mayor and advice. He also said that he wanted to see more guardrails about how DC could spend his money.

“I am not against financing if there is an accountability,” he said.

Other Republicans who support financing treatment are confused by the requirements and delays.

“These drivers are already in there,” said Senator Susan Collins, Maine Republican, in an interview and referred to the restrictions on abortion care, which some Republicans have already applied in DC.

“The president emphasized the invoice,” she added, “so I don't know what's going on.”

Under the concern for the Financing Rest, representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, which monitors the laws and the household of DC. He said he was “in constant communication with the mayor's office” and “used for her to receive the financing that she had planned for the receiving”.

“I expressed my support for the full financing of DC,” said Comer. “Hopefully it will be restored.”

Campbell Robertson Reported reports.