Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on April 10 unveiled her last budget before leaving office at the end of this year. The $21.2 billion gross operating spending plan trims the general-fund budget—which pays for core city services—to $12.7 billion, a 3.3 percent cut from the 2026 level. Education and health care, especially Medicaid, remain priorities. Yet the proposal eliminates $127 million previously set aside for future collective-bargaining deals and non-union pay raises. It also caps the child care subsidy program at 6,000 children and ends a COVID-19 pandemic-era wage supplement for child care workers. Bowser told the Council of the District of Columbia that the city is “not broke.” She said the reductions address a revenue shortfall caused by a decrease in the number of federal workers and increased costs for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program....