Mayor Adrian Fenty’s ambitious summer jobs initiative for city teens has burst through its budget three weeks into the program and the mayor is raiding D.C.’s rainy day fund to dig his way out of the crisis, The Examiner has learned.

In a letter last week to Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi, Fenty said that the program’s “expenses are much higher than was foreseen” and he needs another $20.1 million from D.C.’s contingency cash reserve.