APPEARING BEFORE the D.C. Council at the start of its consideration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) proposed fiscal 2020 budget, the city’s independent chief financial officer, Jeffrey S. DeWitt, warned of “yellow flashing signals” in the economy. Instead, the mayor’s budget grows spending faster than the economy. The council, which must pass a budget by the end of May, has had an unfortunate tendency to simply add more to the mayor’s budget. Already this budget session there has been criticism of the mayor’s budget for what it doesn’t include. The council needs to pay attention to the “yellow flashing signals” that Mr. DeWitt talked about and ask the hard questions about what the District can afford.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2019 21:16 UTC