Seattle – This week, Mayor Bruce Harrell signed the City of Seattle’s 2026 budget into law, totaling $8.9 billion in appropriations overall and $2.0 billion toward General Fund priorities.

Passed unanimously by the City Council last week, the final budget preserves key priorities from the mayor’s proposed budget , including record investments in affordable housing, doubling the CARE department’s community crisis responder team, increasing access to healthy, affordable foods citywide, and protecting local programs from federal funding threats. This is the first City budget to pass unanimously since 2013.

“This budget is an affirmation of Seattle’s values at a time when federal uncertainty makes local leadership more important than ever,” said Mayor Harrell. “As we see the chaos com

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