A sharply divided D.C. Council on Tuesday dealt Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Kwame Brown embarrassing political defeats, unexpectedly voting down a $64 million supplemental budget proposal just a day after Wilson Building leaders unveiled a compromise that appeared poised to pass. In two close votes, lawmakers refused to sign off on either of two compromise versions of the spending plan, which Gray and Brown negotiated after legislators largely defeated an earlier supplemental budget the mayor proposed.

“We are disappointed the council has failed to approve this critical legislation,” said Gray spokesman Pedro Ribeiro, who called the vote “immensely short-sighted and highly irresponsible.”