You may soon start seeing a new fee tacked on to the end of that DoorDash or UberEats receipt.
The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved a new 20-cent fee for third-party deliveries in D.C., joining only Colorado and Minnesota in adding a dedicated charge to what has become an increasingly popular way to get everything from your next meal to weekly groceries.
The fee was added during the Council’s challenging two-month deliberations over the city’s 2027 budget, which saw lawmakers struggle to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for social programs that Mayor Muriel Bowser had proposed cutting as part of her attempt to close a $1.1 billion budget hole.