The Council and Bowser administration are at odds on how to fund critical safety net programs.

Acting Police Chief Pamela Smith faced a room of mostly supporters on Wednesday as she testified before a D.C. Council committee preparing to vote on her confirmation as top cop. 

D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s bill is almost as contentious as Initiative 82, the measure that ends the District’s tipped minimum wage.

A proposed Republican spending bill includes a slate of D.C.-specific provisions, including one that would prohibit the city from enforcing a new law to ban right turns on red lights by drivers.

More than half of the D.C. Council’s members say they have concerns with how the internal investigation into accusations of sexual harassment by a former deputy mayor was handled.

The council plans to consider a permanent version of the legislation later this summer.

Bowser is proposing a 3-year delay of the city’s building energy performance standards, one of the District’s most impactful policies to cut carbon emissions.

Two years ago the D.C. Council passed a bill that gradually pulls police officers out of D.C. schools by 2025, but debate over the issue has continued since then.

A recently passed D.C. Council bill is in limbo because of disagreement over when the 30-day clock started for the bill’s congressional review.

The bill would offer retention bonuses to retiring police officers to keep them on the force, but it would also do away with a number of police discipline and accountability provisions.