Leaders of Washington on Thursday pushed Congress to return more than $1 billion in city-collected funds that were sidelined from being released.

“It is ironic that the same people who cut $1.1 billion out of your budget four months later is saying we're going to take over the city because you're not taking care of law enforcement,” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing reviewing President Trump’s federalization of the city’s police force.

“So now we have armed military on the streets here in D.C. because they cut your budget so you can't hire more police and also to recruit........

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