keep 50 years of dc home rule

protect
dc autonomy

Project 2025 is coming. Congress wants more control over DC’s laws and budget.
We are 700,000 residents without representation in Congress.
We cannot be without representation on the local level!!!

What IS DC Home Rule?

DC Home Rule allows our 700,000 residents to elect a Mayor and Council and enact legislation directly affecting our individual rights and financial interests.

What Happens if Congress Takes ALL Control?

If Congress revokes DC Home Rule then Congress will control all of our tax revenue and be in charge of all District legislation. We will have NO say at the federal OR local level!

How Do We Protect Our Rights?

Help us determine the necessary steps to make sure we have a voice on everyday rules which affect our lives.

No Home Rule -
NO Individual Rights!

We have NO representation in Congress!
We must not lose Local Autonomy!
Don't let Project 2025 take our individual rights!

DC has had over 50 years of local ‘Home Rule.’ This Act allows the District of Columbia to pass local laws on “all rightful subjects of legislation within the District.”
Because of the Home Rule Act, DC Citizens may elect a Mayor and council.
The Mayor oversees implementing local laws and the management of municipal agency personnel.
The council may pass acts and resolutions on DC issues specific to its 700,000 residents.
Local matters that could be affected if Home Rule was revoked and the new Congress oversaw our local issues include:

Enacting strict abortion restrictions
Revising minority protection and equal rights
Property tax rate
Execution of metro and public transit fares and management
Taking control of the DC school system including curriculum
Eliminating flouride from our water
Setting minimum wage
Take over trash collection, DMV services, and 311 requests

Project 2025 even calls for eliminating all bike lanes!

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How Could DC Home Rule Disappear?

It may be easier than you think!

Trump has repeatedly referred to DC as a “filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment”. Trump has repeatedly vowed to “take over” DC. He has said, “an important part of my platform for president is to bring back, restore, and rebuild Washington, D.C.” “I wouldn’t ever call the mayor.”
Unfortunately, Congress can rescind DC Home rule upon a simple majority vote.
Even without a vote, Congress and the Executive have automatic authority to:

Take over DC National Guard & Metropolitan Police Department to enforce local crime
Override ordinances passed by DC Council
Impose rules created only by Congress
Impose a Financial Control Board determining how DC's $21 billion budget is spent
Determine fiscal policy affecting DC bond rating
Initiate building projects, such as stadiums, without local input

DC Residents Pay More Into the Federal Government than Twenty Two Other States!

DC Residents Have NO Representation!

Start Working to Protect Home Rule Now!

You Have a Voice, and It is Critical to the Cause!

We all call DC home but we have friends and relatives across the nation. We must call on contacts near and far to lobby Congress to protect DC Home Rule.
This issue is not about who decides if people can turn right on red! This is an issue about self-governance – the foundational issue America was built on.
DC is a city with a lot to be proud of. DC gives more money to the federal government in taxes than TWENTY-TWO other states!
We have thriving schools, protection of individual rights, a democratic system that allows for a council and ANC representatives, a safe environment, budget surplus, and consistent growth.
For this administration to take over local rule of 700,000 people without any consultation with local authorities is an abdication of fundamental freedom and fairness.
This should concern EVERY American!

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Let's Protect
our rights

Let’s not allow them to silence our voice!
Let’s use this moment to champion our cause to have TRUE representation in our government.
We are more than just a territory. We are full citizens of the United States of America and insist on having full rights of participation in this great nation.

Contact Us

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Contact@ProtectHomeRule.org
202-391-2466

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