Bowser’s 2025 Budget Wipes Out Pay Raises for Child Care Workers. She Blames the CFO.

“I just don’t believe she ever intended to fully fund it,” says Tazra Mitchell, chief policy and strategy officer for the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, noting that Bowser also made comments about “right-sizing” the program in last year’s budget cycle. “It already didn’t have enough money.”