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Bowser admin is preparing for family shelters to hit capacity under a budget proposal that shifts the homelessness strategy -- and also seeks a return to congregate shelter if no private rooms are available, unsettling many advocates: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

With early voting underway in the Ward 8 special election, we heard from 3 of the 4 candidates in the race on where they stand on key issues: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Update to this story: Council proposal only allows congregate shelter if spaces ppl are placed still meet definition of "private room." Adds $$ for DC Flex & vouchers for families in the event that there is no space in shelters. Full budget debate tomorrow washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

DC Council just debated legislation postponed to July 28) to make changes to the eviction process due to a citywide problem with unpaid rent. (vote got postponed to july 28.)

Our full coverage of today’s major council action within the budget. W/ jenny gathright washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

So, this is a first in D.C. politics: Yesterday Trayon White shared a video on his Instagram account of a woman encouraging people to go vote. (There was some light endorsement of his message, also.) The video, though, is AI-generated.

AP has called it: they project Trayon White has won the Ward 8 special election, returning to his seat after a bribery indictment and expulsion from the council. Story with Meagan Flynn and many others: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Breaking news: Expelled D.C. lawmaker Trayon White is projected by AP to win the special election to reclaim the Ward 8 seat despite his bribery indictment and the chance he could be disqualified from office if convicted. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Ward 7 freshman Council member Wendell Felder - who just took office himself in January representing Ward 7, stops by to congratulate Trayon White on his apparent re-election to the W8 seat. Felder voted in February to expel White for ethics violations. Washington City Paper

News: At-Large SBOE Rep. Jacque Patterson (Dr. Jacque Patterson, (Edvocate At-Large)) tells me he’ll file to run for DC delegate tomorrow. He’s fresh off chairing Sheila Bunn’s Ward 8 campaign. He’s the first serious challenger to Eleanor Holmes Norton…if she runs again. I’d expect to others file soon.

Trayon White faces trust issues, slim margin as he’s reelected to D.C. Council, w/ jenny gathright washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

In D.C., a toddler died of hunger and thirst. Why didn’t anybody save her? So much neglect, by the parent but also by the social welfare agency charged with caring for our most vulnerable. Heart-rending work by paul schwartzman: wapo.st/4lJgDhd

An unknown LLC is suing D.C. sports betting companies under an 18th century law named for Queen Anne. Now the D.C. Council may intervene with a provision in the budget, up for a vote Monday, that could moot the case. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Our full coverage of the final vote on the nearly $22 billion DC budget, as lawmakers sought—largely unsuccessfully—to enhance programs for lower income residents and disagreed on the future of voter-approved ballot initiatives, w/ ⁦jenny gathright⁩ washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…