{"id":2435633,"date":"2025-05-16T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-council-chairman-opposed-to-commanders-stadium-plan-accepts-the-deal-is-inevitable-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:13:00","slug":"dc-council-chairman-opposed-to-commanders-stadium-plan-accepts-the-deal-is-inevitable-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-council-chairman-opposed-to-commanders-stadium-plan-accepts-the-deal-is-inevitable-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Council chairman opposed to Commanders stadium plan accepts the deal is inevitable &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-council-chairman-opposed-to-commanders-stadium-plan-accepts-the-deal-is-inevitable-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2435633&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Washington D.C. Council chairman Phil Mendelson has shifted his position regarding the proposed plan for a new Washington Commanders stadium, acknowledging that a deal appears unavoidable despite his earlier skepticism. Initially, he believed the council would reject the deal presented by Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Commanders, but now he suggests that an agreement will be reached, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >potentially involving public subsidies<\/a>, even though he personally opposes public funding for private ventures. He emphasized the need for due diligence to ensure the best deal for taxpayers. The proposed $3.7 billion deal includes a cost-sharing arrangement where the Commanders would cover the majority of construction costs, while the district would contribute $500 million for infrastructure and an additional $181 million for parking. A recent poll indicated that a majority of D.C. residents support the stadium plan, highlighting the divided opinions among local leadership and constituents. However, Mendelson criticized the timeline set by the mayor as unrealistic, asserting that the council had not been adequately consulted about the proposal&#8217;s progress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DC Council chairman opposed to Commanders stadium plan accepts the deal is inevitable<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2121602\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Washington, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson indicated that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3396033\/dc-rfk-stadium-deal-split-opinions-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"deal to build a new Commanders stadium\">deal to build a new Washington Commanders stadium<\/a> appears inevitable, a shift in rhetoric from when he indicated it wouldn&rsquo;t go through late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/muriel-bowser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Muriel Bowser<\/a>&nbsp;and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-commanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Commanders<\/a> announced a deal last month to build a new stadium in the city, presenting the proposal to the city council. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/dc-council-chairman-says-rfk-stadium-deal-would-not-pass-vote-was-held-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a>&nbsp;with Fox 5 shortly after, Mendelson said he didn&rsquo;t believe the council would vote to pass the deal. He&rsquo;s now changing his tune, saying Wednesday that a deal will be reached.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3414042\/san-francisco-public-defender-says-caseload-is-too-heavy-will-scale-back-service\/\">San Francisco public defender says caseload is too heavy, will scale back service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3414106\/james-comer-autopen-house-investigation-biden\/\">James Comer says House investigating Biden&rsquo;s autopen use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3413869\/pope-leo-orthodoxy-diplomats-truth-justice-peace\/\">Pope Leo XIV signals orthodoxy to diplomats, urges &#8216;truth, justice and peace&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I do think that there will be some public subsidy. We will reach a deal,&rdquo; he said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/dc\/2025\/05\/exclusive-dc-council-chair-thinks-city-will-reach-a-deal-to-build-commanders-stadium-at-rfk-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"interview\">interview<\/a> with WTOP. &ldquo;I do think the deal can be improved.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My personal view that we should not use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delusions-of-progressive-resistance-in-pas-heartland\/\" title=\"Delusions Of Progressive \u2018Resistance\u2019 In PA\u2019s Heartland\">public tax dollars<\/a> to subsidize a private entity, namely, the stadium, is not the majority view,&rdquo; Mendelson conceded. &ldquo;The prevailing view in the council is that we need to do our due diligence, scrutinize the proposal, and make sure it&rsquo;s the best deal possible for the district, and for the taxpayers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LISTEN: &ldquo;We will reach a deal.&rdquo; DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson now sounding like the deal to build a new Commanders stadium is inevitable.  He says it will likely involve local tax dollars going to it, which he himself doesn&rsquo;t support. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WTOP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ThEa0HAEvI\">pic.twitter.com\/ThEa0HAEvI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Iannelli (@NickWTOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickWTOP\/status\/1923179085229851037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>However, Mendelson said Bowser&rsquo;s timeline was unrealistic and likely wouldn&rsquo;t be met.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not going to happen as quickly as the mayor had promised. The mayor apparently negotiated a deadline for the council without any consultation with the council. The mayor announced this, as we know, several weeks ago &mdash; we still don&rsquo;t have a proposal. She could have submitted it to us already. So these delays are not our doing,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3406765\/dc-commanders-stadium-poll-residents-ward-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"MOST DC RESIDENTS WANT PROPOSED COMMANDERS STADIUM AS CITY COUNCIL TEETERS\">MOST DC RESIDENTS WANT PROPOSED COMMANDERS STADIUM AS CITY COUNCIL TEETERS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3393106\/commanders-deal-new-stadium-washington-d-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$3.7 billion deal<\/a> between Bowser and the Commanders, the two would split the cost to build the stadium, housing, shops, parks, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/commanders-stadium-deal-faces-split-opinions-on-dc-council-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... ... faces split opinions on DC ... - ... Examiner\">recreational sports facilities<\/a>. The Commanders would pay $2.7 billion for vertical construction, while the district would pay $500 million for horizontal construction and $181 million for parking.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <em>Washington <\/em><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em>Post<\/em>-Schar<\/span> School&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2025\/05\/08\/rfk-stadium-commanders-financing-poll\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ2Njc2ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ4MDU5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDY2NzY4MDAsImp0aSI6IjAyZWVlMGM3LTY1NDAtNDk1Yi1hZDk2LWE3ZGVlN2NkYTg0NiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvMjAyNS8wNS8wOC9yZmstc3RhZGl1bS1jb21tYW5kZXJzLWZpbmFuY2luZy1wb2xsLyJ9.rzX9rNJJSw4Qriz0VZsFdeIQdYvhCYQ_l_ImFJmlZIo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"support\">poll<\/a>&nbsp;of 651 Washington, D.C., residents found that 55% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3406765\/dc-commanders-stadium-poll-residents-ward-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"support\">support<\/a> the plan compared to 39% who oppose it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2121602\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2121602\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson now believes a new Commanders stadium deal is unavoidable, despite previously opposing it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2435634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DC.-1-1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55400,38555,37198,55401,32076],"class_list":["post-2435633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-commanders-stadium","tag-dc-council","tag-local-government","tag-sports-facilities","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DC.-1-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435637,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435633\/revisions\/2435637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}