D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser attends a news conference defending the city’s assisted suicide law from congressional interference. The law faces a new line of attack in President Trump’s budget proposal. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
  

The District would be barred from spending its own tax dollars to implement its new assisted suicide law under President Trump’s proposed budget, but a spokesman for the mayor says she is determined to implement the law anyway.
In December, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) signed legislation to make the nation’s capital the seventh jurisdiction to make it legal for doctors to prescribe fatal medication to terminally ill residents.
House Republicans tried to exert congressional authority over the District earlier this year to block the measure but ran out of time before it became law. Social conservatives oppose assisted suicide because they see it as undermining the sanctity of life.
Language in the president’s proposed 2018 federal budget, released on Tuesday, would bar the city from using any funding — local or federal — to carry out the law or implement rules and regulations. The budget requires the approval of the House and Senate.