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3/31/2026
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke last week announced revisions to the transit agency's proposed fiscal-year 2027 budget originally presented in December 2025.
The revised proposal reduces how much money the transit agency's jurisdictions — the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia — would subsidize for the budget, said WMATA officials in a press release. The new proposal sets the budget at about $4 billion.
The original proposal called for the jurisdictions to provide $1.96 billion in funding for the transit agency for FY27; the revised proposal drops the jurisdictions' total contribution to $1.94 billion.
The revisions also take into account additional expenses of $11 million from proposed service changes; increased revenue of $14 million from improvements to fare collection; prior-year savings of $12 million from reconciliation of prior pass sales revenue; and net savings of $15 million from deferred preventative maintenance on the Metrorail system.
WMATA's board will consider the changes to the proposed FY27 budget and is slated to vote on its adoption on April 23, WMATA officials said. The full revised budget proposal can be viewed in this presentation.