Appropriations
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Build Your Own Child Tax Credit – A Web-Based Version
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) has become a topic of significant debate among policymakers as they wrestle with determining its appropriate size...
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Senate Appropriations Supplemental Could Add $155 Billion to the Debt
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) announced yesterday that they would introduce add supplemental...
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Rep. Grothman Introduces Bill to Enforce FY 2026-2029 Spending Caps
Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) recently introduced the Enforce the Caps Act in the House, along with nearly a dozen co-sponsors. The legislation...
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Appropriations 101
What are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How does Congress allocate appropriations? How are...
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House Appropriations Committee Publishes FY 2024 Community Project Funding Requests
In an effort to improve transparency around the appropriations process, the House Appropriations Committee recently centralized a list of Fiscal Year...
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Putting the Limit, Save, Grow Act in Context
The Limit, Save, Grow Act would reduce deficits by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, with $3.2 trillion of those savings coming from caps to...
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Build Your Own Discretionary Budget
Each year, Congress must pass a new set of appropriations bills to fund the discretionary side of the budget and avoid a government shutdown. There...
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Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2023 Introduced in the Senate
Last week, Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and a bipartisan group of nine additional senators reintroduced the Prevent...
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FY 2023 Omnibus Means Over $700 Billion Boost to Baseline Spending
The recently-passed Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 omnibus appropriations package will substantially boost appropriations levels this fiscal year and into the...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2023
Updated 1/3/2023: The President signed the FY 2023 omnibus appropriations bill on Thursday, Dec. 29. The House passed the measure by a 221-205-1 vote...
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What's in the FY 2023 Omnibus Bill?
Update (2/3/2023): This piece has been updated with a more complete analysis of the bill as scored by the Congressional Budget Office. Policymakers...
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End-of-Year Changes Need Offsets
As policymakers continue to negotiate a possible omnibus appropriations bill, there is also discussion of attaching a variety of revenue and mandatory...