The House passed bills imposing voting and policing policies on the District of Columbia, but the G.O.P. has refused to consider a measure to restore hundreds of millions of dollars of its funding.
Three months ago, President Trump urged House Republicans to “immediately” fix a $1.1 billion budget hole they forced on Washington, D.C. This week, the lawmakers have instead advanced bills to impose their policy agenda on the city’s Democrat-led government — without addressing the funding shortfall.
The House passed two bills on Tuesday to undo local legislation passed by the district’s government: one to repeal a law letting noncitizens vote in local elections and another removing provisions that make it easier to discipline police officers for misconduct.
A third bill, slated for a vote later this week, would bar the district from passing sanctuary laws and force local officials to cooperate with federal immigration policies.
Even as they moved to shape the district’s laws, House Republicans have taken no steps to address the budget hole they created when they passed a stopgap spending bill in March. Several lawmakers suggested on Tuesday that a resolution remained distant and potentially even off the table, despite Mr. Trump’s stated support.
“Nobody’s talking about it anymore,” said Representative Andy Harris of Maryland, the chairman of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. “Nobody’s talking about it at all.”
Speaker Mike Johnson has blamed the delay on the need to address other Republican priorities. “We’ve got a lot on our plate,” he said on Tuesday.