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It’s getting down to the wire at the D.C. Council, where Chair and Mayor-elect Vince Gray and his 12 colleagues have continued tweaking Mayor Adrian Fenty’s plan to close a $188 million budget gap for the current fiscal year.

After a 15-hour hearing last Tuesday, Gray spent what was left of the week meeting one-on-one with members of the Council. There was supposed to a public meeting today to continue hashing out the details of proposed cuts and to consider a possible tax hike on the city’s highest earners, but it was called off. A first vote is expected tomorrow, and a second vote is set for December 21.

Nearly everyone is in the dark about what the Council will produce tomorrow, but the pressure has been on in recent days from both sides of the debate. On Saturday, the Post called for spending cuts and came out against any tax increases, an opinion echoed today by Jonetta Rose Barras in her Examiner column. (“[Gray] must encourage his colleagues to consider the long-term interest of the city, pushing them to approve major spending cuts, rollback of some employee benefits, and elimination of select government offices,” she wrote.)