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D.C. area is feeling toll of federal spending cuts. These charts show how. | The Washington Post

August 07, 2025
  • D.C. Policy Center

On August 4, 2025, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted in The Washington Post:

“D.C. is a company town, and the company is the federal government. So if you take that out of the equation — if government is no longer the calling card — what replaces it?” said Yesim Sayin, director of the D.C. Policy Center economic research group. “What’s the city’s next engine for growth?”

Read More: D.C. area is feeling toll of federal spending cuts. These charts show how.
Additional reading: Creating an environment of growth and opportunity in the District

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