The House must correct its insulting cuts to D.C’s budget

Republicans say they want less crime and homelessness in D.C. Cutting the city’s budget won’t help.The nation was spared a government shutdown on Friday after a sufficient number of Senate Democrats reluctantly agreed to pass a continuing resolution that would keep the lights on until the end of the fiscal year. But for D.C., the crisis is still looming.That’s because House Republican leadership omitted language from the resolution — found in every similar measure for the past two decades — that would have allowed D.C. to continue spending at its current, congressionally approved budget levels. Instead, the bill treats the...