Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser notified Congress that she is boosting the city’s fiscal 2025 budget by up to 6% to make up for Congress’s spending cuts for the city.

In a letter to Congress, Bowser said she was using a 2009 statute “that allows the city to increase an approved budget up to 6% if revenues indicate that we have those revenues.” This increase could add nearly $700 million to the current budget, helping offset the budget cuts required by the House’s continuing resolution that set the city’s 2025 funding back to 2024 levels.