District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair. The city raises most of its own money but cannot control how it is spent.

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Few would seriously argue that Congress today is performing well. The federal government recently experienced the longest shutdown in American history when Congress failed to pass the annual spending ...

On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House. Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times Supported by ...