Gray proposes $100k salary cap lift for top brass

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has asked the D.C. Council to pass a bill that would raise the annual salary cap for top administration officials by $100,000. The mayor’s request comes amid council hearings into his hiring decisions that have, in part, focused on the higher than legal salaries handed out to high-ranking members of his administration.

“I don’t think this was a nefarious move,” Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh told The Washington Examiner following a hearing on the bill. “But somebody is tone deaf.”