WMAL Interview - RASHAD YOUNG -02.21.17

INTERVIEW – D.C. City Administrator RASHAD YOUNG

TOPIC: Administrator Young will talk about how the administration is preparing in case we lose funding from the federal government, and the importance of participating during the budget engagement forums.
DC Could Lose at Least $1 Billion Under Trump Sanctuary City Crackdown. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sanctuary cities that protect immigrants could cut federal funding for Washington, D.C. public schools and the city departments that serve homeless people, domestic violence victims and people with HIV. At least $1 billion in federal grants that D.C. receives is vulnerable under the executive order Trump signed Wednesday to punish locales that “willfully violate federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States.” There’s no question that D.C. is a sanctuary city. The District issues provisional driver’s licenses to illegal residents, police do not ask about residency status, and earlier this month Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the creation of a legal defense fund to help immigrants. D.C. is reliant upon the federal government for a total of $3.5 billion in federal grants in financial year 2017.