Citywide mobile sports betting returned to D.C. on Wednesday morning, more than 24 hours after FanDuel suspended online operations in the city while it waited for Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to sign the city’s fiscal year 2025 budget, which reauthorized sports betting in the nation’s capital.
Bowser never actually signed the budget, returning it to the D.C. Council without her signature or veto and expressing concerns about certain tax and spending measures. But the move in essence allowed sports gambling to resume in the city.
FanDuel previously had been the lone company to offer citywide mobile sports betting in D.C., but a new law written into the city’s 2025 budget has opened the door to up to six other companies.
