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Originally published in: Annandale Today The $1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill approved by Congress on Dec. 23 includes $2 million to the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission to complete planning for the Envision Route 7 project. Envision Route 7 is a planning process for bringing a bus rapid transit system along the Route 7 corridor between the Mark Center in… Read more »

Originally published in The New York Times. Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have followed through with their vow to make public six years of former President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns, giving the American public new insight into his business dealings and drawing threats of retaliation from congressional Republicans. The release on Friday morning… Read more »

Originally published in Bloomberg. Donald Trump’s tax returns show how the former president used a range of write-offs in the US tax code to pay little or no federal income tax, according to six years of records released Friday by a House panel. The returns, which include his personal and business filings from 2015 to 2020, are the first complete look into Trump’s tax records for… Read more »

Originally published in The New York Times. House Democrats released six years of former President Donald J. Trump’s tax records on Friday, offering new insight into his business dealings that further undermined his long-cultivated image as a wildly successful businessman. The release on Friday morning contained thousands of pages of tax documents, including… Read more »

Originally published in: Patch U.S. lawmakers passed a roughly $1.7 trillion government funding bill for fiscal year 2023 last week that includes funding for several projects in Arlington, according to Rep. Don Beyer (D), who represents all of Arlington, Falls Church and Alexandria and parts of Fairfax County. The omnibus appropriations bill also includes language that… Read more »

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Originally published in: FFX Now An ongoing study of the possibility of having bus rapid transit (BRT) service from Tysons to Alexandria can now proceed confident that the planning will be seen through to completion. The $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that Congress approved on Friday (Dec. 23), just in time to avert a potential government shutdown,… Read more »

Originally published in: ARL Now Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) has secured $2.25 million in federal funding for stormwater infrastructure projects in Arlington. The funding was part of a bipartisan omnibus government funding bill that passed the House of Representatives and the Senate last Thursday, three days before Christmas. “I am proud to announce that bipartisan legislation… Read more »

Originally published in The Washington Post. Normally Don Beyer doesn’t bring his multivariable calculus textbook to work, but his final exam was coming up that weekend. “And I’m running out of time,” he said, plopping the textbook and a scribbled notebook filled with esoteric-looking calculations on a coffee table in his office, “because I have all… Read more »

Originally published in: ALX Now The Alexandria Police Department and local non-profits are getting a federal funding boost as part of the new omnibus funding bill. Rep. Don Beyer (D) who represents the 8th District highlighted a few of the benefits to Alexandria in the FY 2023 omnibus bill approved on Friday. According to Beyer: Alexandria: $1,500,000 for the… Read more »