The White House has twice turned down the District of Columbia’s request for more than $120 million in stimulus money because D.C. bureaucrats have fouled up their application, city officials told The Examiner.

D.C. has just completed a struggle to close an $800 million budget gap for fiscal 2010 by relying on millions of dollars in stimulus cash from the federal government. But city officials have failed in their attempts to get the paperwork requesting the money completed appropriately, and the White House has twice sent back their applications, two officials said on condition of anonymity.