Appropriations
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What's in the Fourth Coronavirus Package?
Read moreThe Senate yesterday passed the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act by unanimous consent. The bill is the fourth piece of...
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Families First Coronavirus Response Act Will Cost $192 Billion
Read moreLast week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the Families First Coronavirus Response Act ( FFCRA), the second of three packages enacted so...
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What's in the $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package?
Read moreUpdated on 4/21/2020 and 4/29/2020 to reflect the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) estimate and subsequent revisions. Lawmakers recently approved...
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Don’t Play Politics with the Coronavirus Response
Read moreFor Immediate Release Policymakers are currently drafting legislation to mitigate the economic damage caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...
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Lawmakers Release Emergency Funding Request on Coronavirus
Read moreAppropriators released today their $8.3 billion emergency funding bill to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, $5.8 billion more than the $2.5 billion...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2020
Read moreNote: For the latest fiscal year, click here . Updated 12/24/2019: Congress did not complete action on appropriations before the end of the fiscal...
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Budget Deal Shows Bipartisan Failure of Leadership
Read moreFor Immediate Release Later today, President Trump is expected to sign into law a $1.4 trillion spending package, appropriated through two bipartisan...
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Spending Package Could Add $500 Billion to Debt
Read moreUpdate 12/17/19: CBO and JCT have now estimated the year-end spending package after a late-night addition by the House Rules Committee. The bill now...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
Read moreThe fiscal year began on Oct. 1, 2019, and Congress has enacted none of 12 appropriations bills setting discretionary spending levels. Lawmakers have...
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The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act Will Not Cost $12.6 Trillion
Read moreThe Prevent Government Shutdowns Act (PGSA) would establish an automatic continuing resolution (auto-CR) to prevent shutdowns and would put into place...
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Will Thanksgiving Appropriations Be Stuffed with Debt?
Read moreHaving just enacted a continuing resolution last week to extend current government funding through November 21, policymakers must now work toward the...
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A Plan to Raise the Caps Without Breaking the Bank
Read moreDue to the large temporary increase in discretionary spending levels for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, spending is...