Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb on Tuesday argued that the city has grounds to disobey Congress’s move to ensure residents are beneficiaries of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts.
Earlier this year, Congress passed a disapproval resolution that prohibited the District of Columbia from preventing city residents from claiming new tax deductions under Trump’s 2025 tax law. In an opinion issued this week, Schwalb contended that Congress’s action came too late to affect taxpayer filings in 2025, asserting that at the time, the tax season had already begun and lawmakers did not specify in the resolution that the legislation was retroactive. The move could set up an unprecedented legal battle between the district and the Trump administration regarding the city’s home rule status.
