Here is an interesting affaire that predicts the future.

An august body rushed to issue written orders and overlooked a word contrivance that turned a city into a federal agency. Due to renaming, city coffers full of legal tender are frozen shut unable to fill the empty pockets of teachers, firepersons or police.

Rabid representatives of the body, who caused the problem, look for advantage, bark falsehoods, and prepare to snatch rights from unpaid denizens, as punishment for patience with abnormal.

What is happening to DC right now is the future for all.

Triage madness now

-- or become somebody's new toy.

nytmes.com 7 May 25
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A bill to restore more than $1 billion in funding for Washington, D.C., that Congress blocked earlier this year has stalled in the House, where Republican resistance to the measure has left its fate in doubt.

G.O.P. leaders say they still intend to bring up the bill, blaming the delay on the competing priorities of passing President Trump’s agenda. But some ultraconservative Republicans are opposing it outright, arguing that Washington — a Democratically run city that is home to a significant number of federal workers and Black residents — should not get to spend its own money unless it abides by Republicans’ wishes on voting, abortion and other issues.

The lack of action leaves D.C. in limbo, facing a cut of hundreds of millions of dollars from this year’s budget that could lead to steep reductions in city services. That is because the Republican-led Congress, when it passed a stopgap funding bill in March, omitted standard language routinely included in appropriations bills to approve the city’s budget. Without the approval, Washington was forced to revert to last year’s funding levels, amounting to a roughly $1.1 billion cut halfway through the fiscal year.
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