Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Monday sounded alarm over what she described as a "$1.1 billion problem" in a plan rolled out by House Republicans to keep the government funded beyond a Friday shutdown deadline and into September.

In remarks outside of Congress on Monday afternoon, Bowser called on lawmakers to change the language in the stopgap plan, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), to prevent the District from being forced to revert to the previous fiscal year's funding levels.

Bowser said the plan would “immediately have the effect of cutting $1 billion” out of D.C.’s budget.

"In the most recent continuing resolution language, it ignores our already congressionally approved fiscal 2025 budget," she said. "Instead, it would peg us at FY24 levels -- the levels that federal agencies are [at] because they do not have an approved FY 25 budget."

"But we are not a federal agency," she said. "We are a city, county, state all at once, and we provide direct services to the people of the District of Columbia, visitors to the District of Columbia, businesses in the District of Columbia, diplomats and visiting........

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