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87 results for "Budget and Appropriations"

87 results for "Budget and Appropriations"

Budget & Appropriations

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The decision on how to spend the government’s money is one of the most important powers of the Legislative Branch. Beginning with the release of the President’s Budget in February and continuing throughout the Congressional session, the Appropriations...

Federal Update: Congress Completes Action on FY16 Budget Plan

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Congress completed work late yesterday on a budget for the 2016 fiscal year – marking both the first budget resolution to be completed in six years and the first joint congressional budget plan since Republicans took control of both chambers earlier this...

President Trump Releases FY27 Budget Request

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On Friday, President Trump released his fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request, once again seeking to restructure the federal bureaucracy and make steep cuts to education and research—proposals that were largely rejected or at least mitigated by Congress in...

Federal Update: President Obama Releases FY17 Budget Request

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The broad strokes of the President’s State of the Union address received their fine print today with the release of the White House’s fiscal year 2017 budget request. The Obama Administration’s last budget comes with the freedom from the political...

Federal Update: Congress Tees Up Busy April

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Following last week’s abrupt withdrawal of the GOP healthcare bill, Congressional Republicans huddled this week to regroup and refocus on the agenda ahead. In the near term, the Senate will turn its focus next week to the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch...

Federal Update: President Biden Releases FY24 Budget Request

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This week, President Biden released his fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request, which seeks total discretionary spending of $1.695 trillion, split between $886 billion for defense programs and $688 billion for nondefense, reflecting increases of three and...

Looking Ahead to the End Game

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Halfway through a consequential election year in Washington, the Republican-led House and Democrat-led Senate have shown little appetite to tackle a number of pending weighty issues before the November elections. That reality means a post-election lame...