Phil Mendelson

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson explains why he thinks the deadline for the Council to act on the stadium deal is made more difficult by a difficult D.C. budget.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said he supports a Commanders stadium at the RFK Stadium site, but the proposed cost to taxpayers may be too much.

A day after breaking news that the Washington Commanders are close to reaching a stadium deal with the District, News4’s Mark Segraves got reaction from a couple of D.C. Council members.

D.C. is faced with a $700 million budget gap next year, and residents are facing some significant tax increases across the District to close the distance. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Both Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Mayor Muriel Bowser acknowledge the District’s $700 million budget gap requires cuts to programs and tax increases, but they disagree on which programs to cut and which taxes to raise.

The budget also includes a $70 million pay equity investment for childcare workers, advocated for by Councilmember Christina Henderson. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The D.C. Council chairman unveiled his plan on Tuesday to increase some property taxes and a tax imposed on employers. Chair Phil Mendelson said it’s part of his plan to restore programs that Mayor Muriel Bowser wanted to cut as part of the upcoming budget vote.

The D.C. Council chairman unveiled his plan on Tuesday to increase some property taxes and a tax imposed on employers. He said it’s part of his plan to restore programs Mayor Muriel Bowser wanted to cut. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser presented next year’s budget to the D.C. Council, she included $500 million in cuts to services, as well as some tax increases. Bowser said part of the reason she was making such deep cuts to programs such as the Early Childhood Education Pay Equity Fund was a last-minute requirement from the District’s CFO, Glenn Lee,...

A showdown brewing over D.C.’s budget could end with another faceoff between D.C. leaders and Congress. News4’s Mark Segraves reports the city’s chief financial officer is requiring the budget include $200 million set aside for emergencies, but the D.C. Council chairman is threatening to ignore the CFO.

D.C. taxpayers still don’t know the finer details of this deal. But D.C.’s elected leaders do, because they heard about them in a meeting the public had no idea about.

Aside from what we’ve already reported, the public still doesn’t know the finer details of the Capital One Arena deal. But D.C.’s elected leaders do, because they heard about them in a meeting the public had no idea about. News4 I-Team reporter Ted Oberg reports.

Fifty years ago today, the people of D.C. got a Christmas present from the president of the United States, something citizens had been asking for for a century. And all these years later, the chairman of the D.C. Council sees the D.C. Home Rule Act as a gift that’s still being unwrapped.

Fifty years ago, the people of D.C. got a Christmas present from the president of the United States that they’d been asking for for a century. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke to the chairman of the D.C. Council, who sees the D.C. Home Rule Act as a present that’s still being unwrapped.