How an unknown man used a mysterious rule to put Bowser’s budget on hold

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Washington, D.C., Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee is holding up Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget by asserting that a reserve fund must be replenished as part of it.

Bowser’s budget was supposed to come out Wednesday, but Lee held it up at the last minute. Though there is nothing in Washington, D.C., law that requires the reserve fund, a savings account for the government, to be refilled, Lee is using his authority to insist as much.

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