The money will help renters and housing providers cover unpaid rental payments and utilities like water, gas, and electricity.

The latest stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan, will direct more than $10 billion in state and local aid to D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

D.C. would get direct state and local aid, as well as $755 million it was shortchanged when Congress approved the CARES Act last year.

Metro officials say they are expecting to get $610 million in federal funds, enough to stave off some service cuts and layoffs over the next year.

President Trump said he’s walking away from negotiations over a new federal stimulus package for pandemic relief. D.C. area leaders say people need more help from the government, not less.

According to ProPublica’s Recovery Tracker database, the District of Columbia has received the most money per capita than any other state since the federal stimulus plan was enacted in 2009.

Photo by Brian Oh We were all set to write off the Associated Press’s latest attempt (via WTOP) to recycle the “National Mall is a National Disgrace” story template, which has been a favorite of the local media for years now (for examples, see last year’s versions here and 2007’s here). We all already know that the National Mall is looking pretty banged up, with cracked walkways, dead, trampled grass, dying trees and mud…

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Photo by maxedaperture. Now that the dust has cleared on the passing of President Obama’s infrastructure package, it’s now time to measure what’s going where locally. It’s important to keep in mind that most of the investments which the stimulus is paying for will not be immediately felt. Rather, the plan is a long term effort to create and save jobs; as such, most upgrades won’t be seen until at least 2010. Additionally, a…

The Post says that funding for a $200 million renovation of the National Mall was removed from President Obama’s stimulus package Tuesday night during a House Rules Committee session. The move is a blow to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and to groups like the National Coalition to Save Our Mall, who have been pushing hard for Mall repairs for the last several years. Mall advocates had been hoping the national spotlight on the Mall…