In a letter to the president on Tuesday, DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) warned that the fund has now been exhausted and is estimated to have a deficit of $ 6 million. USD per 30. The mayor also noted that the account was never reimbursed for $ 7.3 million in expenses from Trump's 201
[Read the mayor’s letter to the president here]
Bowser requested that the White House undertake to fully refund the Fund.
"We are asking for help to ensure residents of the District of Columbia are not asked to cover millions of dollars of federal expenses and are able to maintain our high standards of protection of federal events," she w rote.
The White House did not respond promptly to a request for comment.
Chris Rodriguez, director of the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said in an interview that the estimated cost for July 4th was six times that of previous years and would probably grow as the city continues to cover expenses.
[Trump still owes the District $7.3 million in inauguration costs]
The president's new Independence Day celebration, called "A Salute to America", included a speech by Trump at the Lincoln Memorial, military aircraft flyers and a display of armored vehicles at the Mall. The changes came with protests from the president on what is typically an apolitical event, with activists flying a secondary "Baby Trump" balloon near Memorial II.
On Saturday, some of the President's supporters gathered at a Freedom Plaza rally organized by right-wing activists. This event also protested a great protest, and hundreds of police officers were deployed to prevent violence between the two sides.
The District Emergency Planning and Security Fund is full of federal money that reimburses the city for its unique public security costs as the nation's capital. These include providing security at the President's inaugurations, visits by foreign dignitaries and the massive collections that regularly come to the district.
Once it has had large balances from year to year, the fund has fallen in trumpet times. It was never repaid more than $ 7 million of the $ 27.3 million in city costs incurred during the inauguration in 2017, city officials said.
[Norton, Van Hollen seek $6 million for D.C. security costs]
White House officials have said that the district agreed to use unused funds in the emergency fund to pay for the inauguration costs, a claim rejected by the Bowser administration.
The Congress and the White House each year have put less money into the account than the city uses – in the tax regulations 2017, for example. $ 14.9 million added to the fund while $ 24.4 million was spent.
Bowser said in his letter to Trump that December's burial of former President George HW Bush had also contributed to the fund's depletion.
Share the month Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the district's non-representative representative in Congress and Sender Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) Wrote a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Grant Committee calling for an additional $ 6m. USD is added to the emergency fund.
Read more:
Trump's plan to take over the Independence Day as opposed to DC Mayor
House Democrats Attack Trump Over July Fourth Plans
Trump Plans Access Area for July Fourth Event
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