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Eugene

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Wed Jan 9, 2019, 04:47 PM Jan 2019

DC water board jokes about shutting off water to White House amid shutdown

Source: The Hill

DC water board jokes about shutting off water to White House amid shutdown

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 01/08/19 08:53 PM EST

Members of the board of directors at DC Water, the water authority for the city of Washington, D.C., joked Tuesday during a meeting about the possibility of shutting off plumbing to the White House amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Pointing to a notice DC Water had received from the General Services Administration (GSA) concerning delinquent pay due to the shutdown, members of the utility's board of directors joked that the city could consider cutting off water to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, according to WAMU.

“We received an email Wednesday, January 2, from an individual at the bureau of fiscal services at the treasury,” DC Water CFO Matthew Brown reportedly said at the meeting, before explaining that the federal government had informed the company it would be late on approximately $5 million of its $16.5 million due water bill.

The board's chairman, Tommy Wells, responded with an inquiry about shutting off the government's water, apparently in jest.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424468-dc-water-board-jokes-about-shutting-off-water-to-white-house-amid
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DC water board jokes about shutting off water to White House amid shutdown (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2019 OP
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!! MyOwnPeace Jan 2019 #1
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