Remember when all the homes in DC went up for sale when DOGE cut funding to USAID and other spending fraud….

Are restaurants now getting hit in DC cause no free tax dollars to spend?

"They're Just Spending Less": Record Number Of Restaurant Closures Sweep Washington D.C.

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by Tyler Durden

Sunday, Dec 28, 2025 - 07:55 AM

2025 became a record year for restaurant closures in D.C., according to the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW): 92 closures, up from 73 in 2024 and 48 in 2022, according to Fox 5 DC.

Owners cite multiple pressures — federal layoffs, the August federal takeover, a fall government shutdown, higher wages under Initiative 82, rising rents, and food costs — but uncertainty has been the biggest drag.

Diane Gross, RAMW Chair and co-owner of Cork Wine Bar, said business has slowed and customers are cutting back."They're spending less per person, whether it's one less drink or ordering less food. They're just spending less," she said.

more:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/theyre-just-spending-less-record-number-restaurant-closures-sweep-washington-dc

28 Dec, 2025 16:59

Kremlin reveals details of Putin-Trump call

Both presidents have agreed to push for a lasting peace over a temporary ceasefire, according to Yury Ushakov

US President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday to discuss a number of issues related to the Ukraine peace talks ahead of a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky in Florida, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov has said.

The two presidents held a “friendly, well-wishing and businesslike” conversation for an hour and 15 minutes, during which they expressed mutual interest in reaching a lasting peaceful settlement in the Ukraine conflict, according to Ushakov. Putin stressed the need to rely on the understandings reached between the presidents at the summit in Anchorage earlier this year, he added.

more:

https://www.rt.com/news/630111-kremlin-trump-putin-call-details-zelensky-meeting/