WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#GovWaste–Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) its May 2025 Porker of the Month for wanting to spend more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds for a new Washington Commanders football stadium.
On April 28, 2025, Mayor Bowser and the Commanders announced a deal that would bring the team back to Washington, D.C.’s Robert F. Kennedy stadium. The Commanders would contribute $2.7 billion toward the project, but the District would still be on the hook for $500 million in costs over four years and another $500 million for infrastructure improvements. Mayor Bowser promoted the deal as a major achievement, despite D.C.’s escalating housing prices, failing schools, and metro transit system approaching bankruptcy. Mayor Bowser is promising the team $1 billion in taxpayer dollars, but it is unclear where she will find it after the city’s budget was just cut by $1 billion.
CAGW President Tom Schatz said, “Mayor Bowser’s announcement is yet another sweetheart stadium deal. What she is disguising as ‘revitalization’ for the area is instead money going straight into the owner’s pocket. Mayor Bowser should be reducing spending and directing funds into areas of the city that need help, not gouging taxpayers to help fund a new stadium for a billionaire owner. For being completely callous and fumbling away taxpayer dollars, Mayor Bowser is an easy choice for May Porker of the Month.”
Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more than two decades, Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers and government officials who have shown a blatant disregard for the taxpayers.
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