Accommodating the Occupy DC protesters has cost the District $1.6 million since October, Mayor Vincent Gray said Thursday, and now he wants the federal government to pick up the tab. Gray’s spokeswoman, Doxie McCoy, said the mayor is planning to ask the federal government to reimburse the District for costs it ran up because of the Occupy protests at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, including police overtime, traffic management and trash removal.

The Metropolitan Police Department alone spent $1.3 million on the protesters, The Washington Examiner reported this week, and that figure doesn’t include the costs of two large demonstrations last week that included dozens of arrests.