Washington, D.C., is apparently celebrating National Problem Gambling Awareness Month by eliminating funding for problem gambling services.

On Thursday, the NPR affiliate WAMU reported that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was seeking to repeal a provision in the District’s sports betting code that allocates $200,000 in annual funding to problem gambling treatment and prevention.

While the mayor’s office did not return calls and emails seeking comment on the motive for this reported cut, the D.C.-based National Council on Problem Gambling’s main lobbyist, Brianne Doura-Schawohl, speculated that the mayor’s maneuver was “probably an attempt to balance the budget.”

“We’ve never talked more about [problem gambling] as a nation than right now, and now we’re going to take a step backwards in the nation’s capital?” said Doura-Schawohl.