On November 6, 2024, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted by the Washington Business Journal:
“Republican legislators have complained about certain actions in D.C.,” including speed cameras, the granting of voting rights in local elections for noncitizens and returning citizens, said Yesim Sayin, executive director of the D.C. Policy Center, which studies D.C.’s finances and economy.
While the voting issues don’t directly relate to local budgets, “speed cameras are a source of revenue for the D.C. government,” she said. Losing that revenue would be a hit to its budget.
Whether a return to the presidency for Trump will be a net positive or negative for the region “remains to be seen,” Sayin said. But collaboration between the District and the federal government “will be weakened for sure.”
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