Kevin Lang

a man is giving a speech in front of a bunch of microphones one of which has the number 18 on it ALT: a man is giving a speech in front of a bunch of microphones one of which has the number 18 on it

I've seen this movie before. We all know where this is headed.

What happens to the District when the federal government shrinks significantly? We looked at the last time it happened: the 1990s. ora-cfo.dc.gov/blog/lost-de...

Derrick Harmon next to Cam Heyward and Keeanu Benton is not going to be pleasant for folks!

The image shows two maps for federal civilian continued unemployment claims and state unemployment claims for US states with a color that indicates states with more or fewer claims. This image is a scree capture from a nationwide dashboard built by ORA to track impacts from federal downsizing.

How are we monitoring the federal downsizing and its impact on DC? This week’s blog post dives into the data we are monitoring and the dashboards we built for DC and Nationwide to track these impacts. ora-cfo.dc.gov/blog/federal...

A graph of the U.S. where foreign governments are answering President Trump's tariffs with tariffs of their own. The majority of the U,S, workers affected are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows. The headline reads: "Trade War Retaliation Will Hit Trump Voters Hardest." Source: New York Times analysis of data from Lightcast and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Data not available for Alaska.

Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by tariffs that other countries have imposed in response to President Trump's — and the majority are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows. nyti.ms/4iRoCH2

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Not great financial news for D.C.: The CFO's quarterly revenue estimate shows that for FY26, which starts in October, D.C. is expected to take in $325 million less than it expected back in December. And that repeats in the following years. A big cause: federal layoffs.

bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET

It's killer!

The federal government spending money on pediatric cancer research is good, actually.

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