molly henneberg live in d.c. with more on the story. reporter: hi, jenna. here is what is comes down to congress controls the money for the city of washington d.c. locally elected leaders in this very blue democratic city are pressing president obama and senate democrats to loosen those purse strings during the shutdown. specifically, they want the president to withdraw his veto threat of a house bill that would allah d.c. to use its tax money as generated by people who live in d.c. to fund city operations, even while the federal government is shut down. and that is what prompted non-voting delegate, eleanor holmes norton to take on the president yesterday, interrupting him a few times we re told to make her case. holmes tells fox, the president s point of view i had to take issue with. the city is running out of its contingency funds. d.c. mayor, democrat vincent gray, also took up the cause yesterday on the steps of the capitol with senate democratic